May 2008 Newsletter
Well it’s been a while since the last newsletter. As far as the website goes, I’ve upgraded the software I use to run it, and after working out a bug where all of the titles vanished, it seems to be quite stable. I’ve added a few features. One is a copy&paste bit at the bottom of each article on the off chance anyone wanted to link to it. Another is an additional search box at...
September 2007 Newsletter
Well it has certainly been an eventful summer. Some of it has been good, some of it has been bad. On a personal front, I relocated from the Atlanta, Georgia suburbs to the Cleveland, Ohio suburbs with my son and the cats and all of our stuff. I’m trying to sell the house in Georgia now. We’re now renting a house together with Dan, and so far it’s going really well.
On the travel front,...
Live Webcam
I have three webcams, though currently only Cam One is really being used. Actually, at the moment I haven’t been using the cam very often at all. For now you can ignore the links to Cam Three as the picture is totally outdated. The cam opens in a pop-up window. Choose your option below:
Slow Connection (Low bandwidth)
still image image that refreshes at 5, 15, or 30 second intervals (you choose the...
The Candy Corn Incident
I’m not sure how old I was, but I can’t have been older than about 8 or 9. It was near Halloween and my mom, or maybe Sonia, had given me a bag of candy corn. At the time this was one of my favorite candies.
I had been given the absurd limitation of two pieces per day. Considering how tiny these are, and that most people eat them by the fistful, it was nearly...
Taos Skiers Beware
I was 11 the Christmas my mother gave me my own pair of skis and told me she was taking me to Taos. I had never been skiing and I was very excited. I can’t remember if it was a business trip, but I think it probably was. Most of my childhood travel that didn’t involve visiting relatives involved tagging along with my mom on business.
Taos was having a bad year for snow. The...
Misty the Wonder Horse
When I was growing up, my godmother, Barrie, had a horse named Misty. She was all white and generally very friendly. One of my earlier memories of her was being totally grossed out when she licked my hand and the spit foamed up. I’ve always been an animal lover, and horses are no exception. I loved to ride Misty when I got the chance…
Oddly, Misty sometimes had other ideas.
When I was three or...
I Survived a State Mental Hospital
My mom talked my (now-ex)husband into committing me to the mental ward when I was 5 months pregnant. I’d gone off my medication (Lithium and Paxil) and kinda flipped out. What I needed, of course, was my medication (which I apparently refused to take, but after a few hours of TV or something I probably would have taken willingly). Then I would have calmed right down. After sitting around the ER for about 45 minutes...
The McDonald's Gunman
Back in early ’91 when I was still just dating my husband, I used to go to the McDonald’s where he worked to hang out. I’d order some fries or a Big Mac with no meat and sit and read, and when he had a few minutes I’d chat with him, and when he went on break to eat, we’d sit and talk. This particular evening, my friend Star was with me and we were...
Dissecting a Fetal Pig
I attended a Christian school from second grade through the first semester of seventh grade. In science at my tiny religious school, we’d been learning about plants. We’d dissected a flower, examined onion skin under a microscope… cut open lima beans… pretty simple stuff. Over winter break my mom FINALLY decided to let me go to public school. So I landed in a new school and a new science class.
This new science class...
I Fall Down, Go Boom--a brief history of clumsiness
Some of my more spectacular spills over the years…