Pound Head Here

The B&W header image for this post is one of my photos from this summer, heavily edited. The abandoned church sits in Eloy, a nearby ghost town not quite dead enough for ghosts yet, though some of its buildings would argue the point. The unedited version included a whole lot more of the chain-link fencing…

My last entry was called “When it Rains.” It seems Mother Nature took my title as a request, and went out of her way to fulfill it. We have a backyard pool, as you can see. The picture at the top of the post was taken with my cell this morning, edited for clarity and…

Part of me feels like demanding a do-over for today. Part of me shudders at the prospect of reliving a single second. Daughter was the designated Christmas-tree-putter-upper and decorator at her house. Big tree, unstable base – which collapsed the whole 8+-foot mess on top of her. Her hands got cut up trying to catch…

This opens with a disclaimer and a (short) rant warning. I have nothing against Christmas/Yule/Kwanzaa/Hannukah/Festivus, or any winter holiday you celebrate. The lights? The over-the-top decor? Love ’em. Tacky or sophisticated, bring it on. The incessant carols trying to force some joy between the cracks of a fractured society? It’s all good. (Though thankfully I…

I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. I worked today – if you can call watching movies on Disney “working”. Oh, I did my job, too, but it was dead as a doornail. I zoomed through reports because there wasn’t anything else going on except reports. (I usually put the “multi” in multi-tasking.) Since G…