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I'm glad my mother is dead she never had to see this happen again she never got to see how far we've fallen she'll never have to...

  Hydrangea blossoms, all from the same bush. The blue ones were picked in early August, the purple one September 6th. The goblet is courtes...

ChatGPT and other A.I. chatbots are a plague on both education and social media. Using predictive algorithms and large training databases of...

This poem was originally presented at the open mic portion of the Word to Word poetry event at the Gather Community Space in Wilkes-Barre, P...

It's been over eight years since I did one of these . I'm including the previous prices for direct comparison. Groceries purchased ...

I took advantage of the somewhat-more-bearable temperatures today - mid-eighties instead of high eighties - to do some garden work. Today th...

As of this past Tuesday, May 14, I have been blogging for twenty years . I commented a while ago that my blog seems to be primarily a docume...

 Amber was put to sleep on Thursday, May 9, 2024 after suffering a saddle thrombus the night before. July 12, 2020 October 1, 2023 October ...

We almost didn't see it. This total lunar eclipse cut a long path across the United States, from Texas to the New England states. Northe...

  Love Day Here's to the personal holidays - the days we carry with us Not just the birthdays and anniversaries but all the other days t...

March 2: Driver's side windshield wiper blade falls apart. Replaced. (This had been breaking since January, and I had bought a replaceme...

After paying for my new car battery yesterday I took a trip to the cemetery. The crocuses had been breaking the soil on my visit on Sunday b...

And so this "new year" begins on a familiar note. I needed to go grocery shopping this weekend. This used to be a weekly thing, bu...

My mom took her last breath at 8:44 PM on Friday, February 24, 2023. For various reasons, she was not buried until Thursday, March 2. I'...

My mom passed away one year ago, on Friday, February 24, 2023 at 8:44 PM . Several months ago I scheduled Friday, February 23 of this year o...

So strange that I have had two detailed dreams just two nights apart, each using someone else's intellectual property, characters with w...

As the one year anniversary of my mother's death draws near, my mind has been replaying all the events leading up to it. Strangely, I ha...

My mom had her stroke the morning of February 14, 2023. By February 15, it was clear that she would not be recovering, and that hospice woul...

My mom was transferred from the hospital back to the physical rehab center on Sunday, February 12, 2023. I had picked up some dollar store r...