(This is a post about intentionally shaving my head. I know that a lot of people don’t have a choice about not having hair; if reading about someone choosing to temporarily remove their hair will bother you, then you may want to skip this post.) Many years ago, a friend and I discussed the possibility […]
Here are the rest of the letters exchanged during the six weeks of Jay’s and my one-month visit to see George and Helen and aunts and uncles and cousins in June and July 1976. June 29, 1976 Helen tells Peter and Marcy how Jed and Jay’s visit is going. “[George] is most impressed with these […]
Sometimes September turns out to be the month when I coincidentally do a bunch of medical checkups and such. This year, that started in September but has continued into October. My recent medical progress includes: Getting the covalent bivalve booster shot. Getting the flu shot. Having a cancer test done. (Don’t worry, the test showed […]
I complain so often about confusing or unclear documentation that I feel like I ought to occasionally praise particularly good documentation. Two items from last week in that regard: As I previously mentioned, the documentation at the Airbnb that I stayed at was great. Clear and brief, and placed in exactly the right places to […]
(I posted this on Facebook on October 1, but neglected to copy it over to my blog until now.) I’m post-flight quarantining in an Airbnb in Forest Park. So far, I like it. [Edited to clarify: I’m not sick, I’m just isolating for a couple days after my flight.] One of the things I like […]
I just took a look at the demo for Sudowrite, an AI-based text-generation tool to help fiction writers. (You can sign up for a free trial; after the trial period, it costs $10/month.) I find it mildly intriguing, but not something I’m likely to use. But I’m amused by a couple of things in the […]
I recently encountered a reference to Alger Hiss and a “Woodstock typewriter”; I went looking for more information, and found some really interesting history, which among other things touches on the rise of Richard Nixon. My only association with the name “Alger Hiss” was that he was a spy; I didn’t even know when or […]
And here are the 1976 letters so far. The below are mostly life-update kinds of things, but the last one is all about how to take care of Jay and me during our visit; it’s the start of a several-letter series during our month-long visit. February 14, 1976 General updates from Marcy. “Here I sit […]
And now I’ve fallen even further behind in posting links to family-history letters. Here’s a catchup post through the end of 1975; I’ll do another one for 1976-so-far. Things included below: Some art, assorted life updates, a major change to the foster home, two more moves, and the first letter written by Jay. Specifically: November […]
I read Parke Godwin’s novel A Truce with Time: A Love Story with Occasional Ghosts in 1990, shortly before my college graduation. (The book had been published in 1988; it was written in 1986, and set in 1979.) What I remember of my reaction to it is that it felt to me more mature than […]
I’ve fallen a couple of weeks behind in posting links to family-history letters. So here’s a catchup post. Things I’ve posted in the past couple weeks include a set of daily what-I’m-grateful-for lists from Marcy, a recipe, some pages from my childhood journal (which I used mostly for practicing writing words), a couple of notes […]
I keep catching glimpses of things online saying that there are too many avocados at the moment. To which my reaction is: Oh, no! I must eat extra avocados! For the good of the world! It is a great and woeful sacrifice, but willingly do I hurl myself onto the excess avocados and consume them, […]