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Happy birthday to me. A Certain Age gets nearer with each anniversaire, but, fortunately, as the Baby Boom advances before me, A Certain Age, if it is an actual number, gets a smidge older with passing time. I’m not going to get there quite as fast as I might if this was, say, 1969. I’m [...]

Happy birthday, mom, wherever you are in the universe now. Today would have been your 72nd birthday.
Welcome to another Solstice.
I put my first public entry on the web, my first open journal, 10 years ago today, and I started it in much the same way: Today, were she still alive, my mother would [...]

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to ride my bike to work. But the days I can do it have inevitably been like today… thunderstormy. Just, frak.
In fact, that’s pretty much how I feel about this whole passage of time. Just …

First, a story of Michael’s youthful escapades: A LOVE story you won’t take for granite
It was a shock to find that in the newspaper.
But a bigger shock today:

Zorro’s Fighting Legion
An old serial, from 1939. I found it, poking around teh internetz. My grandfather appears at about the 14 minute mark, playing Martinez. This is the [...]

I’ve seen Kat for the last time.
I never loved my job at BLHS, but I often loved the work. Kat had 47 years on this planet, and she shared 10 of them with me. Year in, year out, I went to her, spent a work day, week, month, decade caring for her when she [...]