I always knew my Grandma Heritage as a very cheerful and quietly brilliant woman, who had a mind for details. No surprise she worked for many years as a librarian for the Bureau of Prisons, which is where she met my step-grandfather, Dave Heritage, whom I always knew as Grandpa Heritage. They married when I was only 2, so he was the only ( Read more... )

Thirty years ago, I helped the Penn State Monty Python Society achieve their 15 minutes of fame, thanks to a campus stunt we called "The Coke-In."

Today, a Penn State student published this excellent retrospective on the day and what led up to it:

Carbonated Campus Coup: The 1993 Penn State 'Coke-In'"

The vote is tight this week at LJ Idol! A vote or two could make all the difference for these many fine entries. I swung for the fences and wrote a song. Hope you enjoy it. You can vote using a free Dreamwidth account or use the "Open ID" option to log in from another blogging platform, like LiveJournal. If you create a new DW account, make a note ( Read more... )

This has been a weird few weeks for me. Here are the highlights ( Read more... )

This is my entry for Week 4 of LJ Idol (therealljidol, Three Strikes season. This week's topic is "The axe forgets; the tree remembers."I was serving hash browns when a cheerful voice boomed, "Alice? Is it you?" I glanced up and couldn't place the nondescript person in front of me ( Read more... )

This is my LJ Idol entry for Week 3. The topic is "Morgenmuffel." I am posting from a bench beside the lake, one foot touching mud, another ice.


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This is my entry for Week 2 of LJ Idol (http://therealljidol.livejournal.com). The topic is "What Really Matters."


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This is my entry for LJ Idol (http://therealljidol.livejournal.com), week 1. The prompt is "Black Rainbow."


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I'm going to be participating in the new upcoming season of LJ Idol! I'm planning on posting on Dreamwidth, crossposting to LJ.

This week, I'm dog-sitting my sister's adorable doggo, Leia. Here's a video from yesterday of us (sort of) having a dance party.

Dancing with a Doggo

I did an update of an annual article for Mommy Poppins (my name is at the bottom).

https://mommypoppins.com/philadelphia-kids/christmashanukkah/philly-area-restaurants-open-christmas-day