After 27 years of living in Oklahoma, coming back to the Northeast is a welcome, refreshing change. There were too many things I missed, away from New England, with the ocean near the very top of the list, second only to family.

The first fall I was south of the Mason-Dixon line, my mother mailed a box of autumn leaves to me. I used push-pins to ( Read more... )

I think it's pretty much agreed on that one of the ways our lives changed with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic is certainly the way we watch television. Binge-watching shows certainly happened before the pandemic shut most of us up in our houses back in 2020, but what we watch now seems different.

I gave up cable a long time ago--the summer of ( Read more... )

To my great surprise, I received an email recently congratulating me on being part of LiveJournal for 19 years.

I wasn't sure LiveJournal still existed, and was even more surprised to find everything I'd done here back in 2008. That seems a lifetime ago--15 years.

Did I not think I had anything more to say? Did life just get too much and I did ( Read more... )

Your results:
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Malcolm Reynolds (Captain)
85%
Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command)
70%
Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic)
60%
Derrial Book (Shepherd)
50%
Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic)
50%
Alliance
45%
Inara Serra (Companion)
30%
River (Stowaway)
30%
Jayne Cobb (Mercenary)
25%
A Reaver (Cannibal)
25%
Wash (Ship Pilot)
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This is from "The Guardian", a British newspaper: Anybody heard of this in the American media yet ( Read more... )

I place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

--Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826)

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I've been reading a lot lately, and especially over the weekend in the New York Times, that book sales are down. Really down. Pittiful and pathetically down. "Harry Potter" last summer generated a lot of sales (which is an understatement when you stop and think about it) but it was not enough to "save" publishing from a bad year ( Read more... )

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THIS JUST IN: The Tokyo cat café ( Read more... )