Twice a year we go through the ritual of changing our clocks. Every decade or so a politician will make a fuss about it. The fact is, we could do without it. It no longer serves its original function. But the truth is, it still serves a function. It enforces a convention over which we…
First American Musuem
Let me first say that this is not a museum for children or photographers. This is a museum for readers. Or perhaps there exists a word that combines the term narratives with a museum. There were a lot of oral history and written word displays. It was like someone took twenty or so American Indian…
60 on 60
When Thea had the yard worked on last year, she included a raised garden square that she imagined might be for vegetables or roses or something. Late march rolled around and we were no closer to deciding what should go into the plot. Since it was just bare dirt, it wasn’t doing anything aesthetically for…
“Alexa,…”
Once upon a time, our friend, Anne Roberts, attended a conference. For coming the farthest distance to get to the conference, she got a door-prize. Which she thought was nice but also had no interest in; an Amazon Echo Dot (3rd gen). “The hockey puck” She, in turn, gifted it to us. And I promised…