News PM Punch
November 11, 2013A little afternoon news look-see. If I can get the physical moxie in the PM, this could be a regular feature, maybe. A news junkie from way back, I hit a lot online news sites…
Category Archives: Musings
Boomer Prince
November 10, 2013Clear and bright-as-mirrored sunshine at dawn this Sunday morning on California’s north coast, but the brilliance was quickly replaced by a deep-gray as thick ground fog rolled in from the Pacific — if you don’t…
Sky Fragments
November 8, 2013Skies up along California’s north coast this afternoon makes seeing anything celestial a bit dicey, not there’s any reason specifically, other than more space-rock news, and ‘one strange asteroid:’ The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered…
News that Fits the Bowl
November 3, 2013Early Sunday and falling back on time. Actually, I’m still an hour ahead, but at my leisure sometime this morning will set life right, clock-wise anyway. The laptop, though, is already set in reality. Day…
Wheeling Down the Rabbit Hole — ‘Horribly Helpful’
October 6, 2013One of the best of the detail people online,or maybe anywhere, is Marcy Wheeler, also known as emptywheel — I’ve read her shit for years, and she’s got focused eyes to gaze hard back at the…
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September 24, 2013Overcast and drizzly this early Tuesday on California’s north coast, and apparently the air this morning is a good sound modifier as I can hear the roar of the Pacific Ocean from about a mile…
Aging is for Old People
August 26, 2013Monday again! And there’s not a dang thang I can do about it, either. Sad news over the weekend, singer Linda Ronstadt has Parkinson’s disease. She told AARP online: “No one can sing with Parkinson’s…
Happenstance Reality
August 17, 2013(Illustration: Wolfgang Bloch‘s The Colors of Coincidence found here). An oddity this Saturday morning on California’s north coast: Clear skies and bright, early sunshine. The norm for dawn is deep fog, like yesterday when the…
Weekend Memory Jolt
August 4, 2013Another Sunday morning and the news-crawl continues — foggy, chilly and gloomy here on California’s north coast. Watching ‘Good Morning America,’ not paying much attention to the detail-drone, just hearing somewhat-structured noise — a low-level clamor to…
Funky, Funky
July 28, 2013As I get older, the writing process appears to be short-winded, and based on mood — creative juices just don’t percolate onto the page, or as in this modern era, onto the laptop screen as…