I did not know such a holiday has existed since 1974, but now that I do, I have it in my phone calendar and can be prepared for next year with a post. Turtle Talk’s post shows how Tribes have been hard at work governing and protecting people, places, and natural resources in the State…
29th Annual! Manhattan Short Film Festival 2026
From the website: MANHATTAN SHORT 2026 Ten Short Films from Ten Countries. A Filmic OlympiadGlobal Audience to Decide the Winner. You Be the Judge!Sept 24 — Oct 4 Film lovers world-wide will unite in over 500 locations between September 24 — October 4, for one reason…to view and vote on the ten Finalists Films in…
#FFF 77 Ladies of the Presidents Dolls
In addition to the Paul Collins painting, I discovered a case full of dolls at the library. A couple are kinda sorta creepy but most of them are quite lovely. Hoping you enjoy the stroll through these pretty, frilly beauties. Happy Friday!
#FF — Pool Parties
Pool Parties By day, the pool pampered those who’d never known hunger; who’d been born into privilege and never left it. Cushy connections and nepotism guaranteed unearned wealth with interest and no taxes. Brown servants slathered their pale, never-pinked wrinkled bodies. By night, Gemma, a hood rat, looped surveillance footage with empty glassed blue, while…
The Write Stuff
The Write Stuff Granddaughter writes her nameon library craft box of crayons.It leads to memory-drawn convobetween her mother and I,sharing how our journeys began. Mine that of plastic pen, metal nib,and well of ink, scratches betweenlines of news-stock, bland paper. She, with ball-point on smoothwhite, had trouble with cursivecapitals “G” and “F.” Letters became words;…
“Road Towards Equality” by Paul Collins
Storytime is back at the library for granddaughter. I drove over yesterday to be a part of it. I recognized many familiar faces of parents and kids and new additions to their families from last time, as well as several new families participating. The same librarian leads storytime, and she is wonderful in building enthusiasm…
Rare Earth — Willie Remembers
Some of you may remember me talking about listening to albums at a place I babysat as a teenager. There was one album I remembered the baby face on the cover but couldn’t remember the artist or album. While writing up my Song Lyric Sunday post today, I came across Rare Earth’s cover of (I…
