Sagittarius Horoscope for week of May 28, 2015
Petrarch was an influential 14th-century Italian poet whose main work was Song Book. It's a collection of 366 poems, most of which are dedicated to Laura, the woman he loved. For 40 years he churned out testaments of longing and appreciation for her, despite the fact that he and she never spent time ( Read more... )

I've decided to re-serial post Chillin' Out on DeviantArt, and set it to some of the Creative Commons permissions.

Maybe this will goad me into finishing it.

So now, I've been back from vacation for a couple of days and life is settling back in its usual patterns. Granted, these patterns have been somewhat modified since the virus attack that hit my computer earlier this month ( Read more... )

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of March 18, 2010

The Hebrew word chalom means "dream." In his book Healing Dreams, Marc Ian Barasch notes that it's derived from the verb "to be made healthy and strong." Linguist Joseph Jastrow says that chalom is related to the Hebrew word hachlama, which means "recovery, recuperation." Extrapolating from these ( Read more... )

When I noticed that some Criminal Minds fans were starting an LJ Community for Real Person Fanfiction based on the series, I wondered a little about what they meant...so I looked up the Wikipedia entry ( Read more... )

Right now, we have perhaps half an inch of snow on the ground topped with sleet/refreezing rain mix. Which means that unless something drastic happens I'll probably spend both Saturday and Sunday completely in the confines of Rather Manor. But I did enough travel on the Mountain Home jaunt Friday to make up for it.

Since Dad found the copy of ( Read more... )

As a belated Xmas gift from Paul Francis I received a SMER model kit of the Ŝkoda Favorit (q.v. yesterday's music video) as a rally car ( Read more... )

And it still kind of does.

Long years ago, when I was writing a chapter of Chillin' Out every month or so, I thought I was being inventive and it turned out instead to be a piece of synchronicity. Or perhaps photographic memory that I forgot came back to haunt me.

Let me just pull out a segment from the chapter "Veni, Vidi...Vicisemmi!":

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