Albertsons, Osco, Bushmaster – what do these corporations have in common? They are all part of the Cerberus Group. That includes the Freedom Group unit that made the Bushmaster Rifle used in Sandy Hook mass murder to slaughter 20 babies and their educational guardians. The Freedom Group, which includes Remington and Marlin Firearms, is one of […]
Memoir, Abuse, and Perspective
Two pieces of writing crossed my field of view before I was fully awake today. The first piece was from the New York Times but it was brought to my attention through a writer-friend on Facebook. The NYT article, When Writers Expose the Dead, is about writing memoir. The second piece is The Homeschool Apostates […]
Thanksgiving Weekend in Review
I have not been active in any gratitude months, weeks, lists or activities recently. Does that make me ungrateful or unthankful? Nope. It just makes me an independent agent of appreciation this year. I missed my daughter terribly, but she had a good Thanksgiving with her honey and his brother’s family up in the Great […]
Tech, Tweets, and the TARDIS: How to Embed a Tweet
Did you know you can embed tweets? You can! Fifty years ago at 5.15pm on Nov 23rd 1963, a mysterious exile from another world appeared on @BBCOne in #DoctorWho. pic.twitter.com/XUmYQZn9QZ — BBC One (@BBCOne) November 23, 2013 In the following image I have cropped part of a screen capture of a tweet by […]
Google, Doctor Who, and Me
I just found out that in NZ, on the other side of the world and on the other side of the International Date Line, released the Google Doodle commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first airing of an episode of Doctor Who. It is an 8 bit Dr. Who Game to celebrate and recognize 50 […]
Poetry and a Day Commemorating Assassination.
I am participating in a “blog hop” today with another post of mine about the remembrance of the assassination of President Kennedy. I wanted to include this poem, Braided Dreams, that was accepted as one of the poems of the week by Poets Against the War, but it isn’t about Kennedy, not really. It does […]