Adult Girls Around Thirty
When I lived in Japan in the 1980s I was struck by the various “rules” I perceived for women in regards to clothing and age. During one’s teens and early twenties, youthful fashion seemed acceptable, like what might be found in the Harajuku or Shibuya shopping districts. But once a woman hit her mid-twenties and, especially if she was married, she seemed to turn into some kind of ...
Wonderings and Pre-Google Googlings (Wherein I wonder...
I heard a new old expression the other day. The teacher of the economics class I'm watching via online video said that if you can identify an undervalued stock, you can get rich "in a cocaine heartbeat."Now quick: Guess whether the instructor is in his late-30s, his early-50s, or his mid-60s.That's right, late-thirtysomethings don't speak of cocaine. They're all "Heroin this and ...
Book I've Been Hoping For
Teach the Free Man is a book of stories by someone who knows prison. Red Room author Peter Nathaniel Malae doesn't advertise time he has or hasn't done, but his intimate and intricate knowledge of California prisons, and what it is to be locked up in them, speaks for itself. Most of the stories show us men in cells, visiting rooms, on the tier, on the yard at Avenal, Quentin, and CMC. A couple ...
Republican Hypocrisy
I’ve never understood why the Republicans like to hail Ronald Reagan as the Father of Conservatism and Republican values- and especially why they keep repeating his multitude of anti-government quotes. First of all, Ronald Reagan was a union organizing Democrat before he switched parties to appease his future father-in-law. Second, if government were not here, the Republicans would not ...
What Is Sword and Soul?
I write Sword and Soul stories and novels. What? That's the first reaction I usually get. After a few moments the inquirer ususally begins to put things together. Sword and Sorcery is one thing, but Sword and Soul? If we're standing face to face they look at my chubby brown face and the pieces fall into place. Aha! Sword and Soul is Sword and Sorcery with black people! Then the puzzled look ...
Michael Landon Taught Me Storks Don't Deliever...
Jamie-Lynn Spears is expecting her baby any day. It feels longer than nine months that there were freaked out parents worrying about their children, for their children might ask questions, like "How did she get pregnant?" The mothers in the articles back then were saying they were hoping that their daughters wouldn't read the tabloids or ask those questions, because God ...
Would you share a stage with a...
Yesterday I shared a program with Nash, the canine fluffer from HABIT (Human Animal Bonding and Interaction), sponsored by the UT College of Veterinary Medicine. Nash is the size of a miniature pony. His owner, Karen Armsey, an incarnation of the Goddess Diana, is the gifted director of the program that sends dogs into cancer wards and nursing homes, public schools and libraries, for all the ...
Pablo Neruda's Twenty Poems of Love, and...
Poema 18 Aquí te amo.En los oscuros pinos se desenreda el viento.Fosforece la luna sobre las aguas errantes.Andan días iguales persiguiéndose. Se descine la niebla en danzantes figuras.Una gaviota de plata se descuelga del ocaso.A veces una vela. Altas, altas estrellas. O la cruz negra de un barco.Solo.A veces amanezco, y hasta mi alma esta húmeda.Suena, resuena el mar lejano.Este es un ...
What Can We Live Without???
A few days after my teenaged daughter had her first math tutoring class we went out for pizza at our local and favorte pizza place and lo and behold, the tutor was playing music with some cohorts in the front of the restaurant. The eatery has music a couple of times a week, usually, with, as I understand it, the musicians playing for the (very tasty and gourmet) pies and some tips. We were ...
Reviews, offers and birds
Was delighted to see another five-star review of Maloney's Law on Amazon which you can find here, or alternatively below:"Paul Maloney is a private investigator with an ex-lover Dominic Allen who is CEO of his own international company. He is the one Paul can never forget and as a result he has little hesitation in taking on a job for Dominic. Very quickly Paul realises he is out of his ...
