New Notification: I don’t need big brother?

I freely admit I’m a dinosaur when it comes to new technology and apps. I’m usually the first to challenge its necessity, the last to adopt it, and the one with the most “helpful” hints for improvement.

The Most Relevant Gift

Our family has been on a tight budget for years. This has produced some interesting gifts.

The twins gave school crafts— they stashed the best art projects for holiday gifts. Later, they learned the value of Dollar General, Dollar Tree, and the like.

Birth and Evolution of a Christmas Tradition

I always spent the Christmas holidays with my gram. My mom’s mom was this powerhouse. With just a high school diploma, she started as a secretary in a loan firm and moved up to complete management of operations for a small branch. She cooked, she…

Celestial Affair

Lover,

I have no words to tell you
How the universe of my heart
Has been expanding
Since you shot through heaven
Into our lives.

Zippy Take Over, #13

The Game

I know I told you before about the game I like to play with my humans. They have these big black bags of all the fun things they don’t think are that important. Most of the time, they take them away before I ever get to play. Worse, when I try to play…

An Introduction…

Welcome to my new blog space! If you’re looking for academic discussions of the deep issues of the day, you’re at the wrong place.

I started my initial blog on WordPress nearly three years ago. I didn’t know exactly what I was doing then, and I’m still not sure what I’m…

A Writer’s Wrestling Match

Over the last week or so, I’ve been getting started here on Medium and letting my other platform go fallow. It’s difficult, since I’m scheduled to January 1. However, I’ve seen enough to know that Medium will feed my head.

Keeping A-Breast of the Situation…

Recently, I was scanning through Facebook to see how everyone was doing. Mixed in with the pictures of kids and winter scenes and hunting scores was a video a well known actor (George Takei) had created about a female government official in Europe breastfeeding her…