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I love how it keeps trying to get me to use the "new editor"
How many years has that "new editor" existed?
Amusingly, I'm also coming up on that "future post" that once upon a time I placed so that it would be above all my other posts.
Anyway, I'm still here, yakking after all these years. I'm mainly on my substack, to be sure ( Read more... ) -
Some of my personal inspiration
I may have mentioned these before, but just wanting to put this down quickly -- some of the people I keep coming back to as people I aspire to be, when I grow up (as it were) (yes, I know how old I am)
Julia Child
Candace Wheeler
Thomas Sowell
I've written pieces on Child and Wheeler before.
Here's the one on Child: Training Lessons from the ( Read more... ) -
Yes, I am annoying
Now that that's out of the way ( Read more... ) -
St. Andre Bessette - Jan 6
There is pretty much a saint for every day of the year, and that's not unusual.
But today's saint, Andre Bessette, has a connection to my parish church. He had a particular devotion to St. Joseph, and our parish is St. Joseph. The other thing is he got the St. Joseph Oratory in Montreal built, and we had a new building put up fairly recently (as ( Read more... ) -
Who would like a card or letter?
Howdy all, this is the annual call for Christmas cards for all who desire them -- just email me (marypat.campbell@gmail.com) with your mailing address ( Read more... ) -
Reminder: throttle
The pain comes & goes in waves ( Read more... ) -
Constraints
I've written about this before, and I'm writing w/o looking at the prior post(s ( Read more... ) -
Song cycles (or operas or something) on math
I've been thinking about this for a while, but it requires long-term planning ( Read more... ) -
Buzzy thoughts buzzin in my brain
Two things, just to get them down ( Read more... ) -
Holidays suck
I mean, not because I hate whatever they're celebrating, but it's because this is generally when my body falls apart. Because I can usually keep things together for work and then .... boom, it goes ( Read more... )