Alice in wonderland is one of my favorite reads from when I was a kid. Reading through it gave me the confidence to tackle any sized book. Which probably explains why I was reading way above my level.
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Dagnabbit Phil! You had one job! #GroundhogDay #PunxsutawneyPhil
Well, it’s Groundhog Day . . . Again.
Well, it’s Groundhog Day . . . Again.
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Snowpocalypse day 2.
Bitty Batman: Mr. Freeze was busy last night.
Little Leia: must be a sith. They never rest. The emperor would torture them if they did.
Snow check! Bitty Batman and Little Leia are reporting for duty.
Little Leia: it’s cold enough to freeze your tauntaun.
Bitty Batman: I don’t think that means what you think it means.
Little Leia: I said what I said. #snow #snowpocalypse #snowmageddon
The food that James Bond eats tells us a lot about him, and the world he inhabits. #worldbuilding #writing #fiction #cooking #recipe
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A Lord of the Rings Cover Band called Deep Blue Wizards
If you want to watch a Thanksgiving special, this is pretty much it.
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I found a happy place while camping the other weekend.
The sun hit the trees at the pond outside my house just right last evening. The reds and golds are really popping this week.
Anyway, I wrote a substack based around The Halloween Tree that got me thinking about that.
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I feel like Americans have forgotten the art of processing death. We used to go to decoration services every year. They put flowers on graves, visited neighbors and had picnics. It looked a lot like Dia De Los Muertos. Different time of year, different trappings. Same point. When did we lose that?
More rain, but still a good day to drive in the Ozarks and have dinner on the train.
Making a special treat for the kids since their Halloween campout was canceled due to bad weather.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. 😂
I’ve joined Substack to try a thing. If you like writing and you like food, you might like to read my thoughts on using food as a tool for world building. #writing #writercraft
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Gateau invisible aux pommes (invisible apple cake). Not sure what’s invisible about it. Unless we’re making it invisible one bite at a time. 🍽️
New experiment: air fryer oly koek.
These type of beads went around the world. When they say that Manhattan Island in New York was purchased for a handful of beads, I imagine these were what they were speaking of. #mudlark
Folklore has it’s own sort of charm. Where I am from, they say that you can fortell the severity of winter by looking inside a persimmon seed. If you can see what looks like a soon, then you’ll be shoveling a lot of snow that year. #mudlark #amreading
Maybe the water washes away sorrow and grief, leaving the item cleansed for the #mudlark to find? #amreading
Me (texting my dad): good morning! I love you!
Dad: when’s the next part of your story coming out?
#amwriting
She gave most of her fees to charities. And yeah, plates and paper dolls and lots more. There’s a style of bed called a Jenny Lind bed. They still sell them under that name today.
By Lind’s time, PT Barnum knew a lot about marketing. That’ probably why she was so noteworthy.
Ben Franklin (several decades earlier) saw how people there were using fans with his face on them and decided to support his stay by selling his own stuff. But he hadn’t gone to France with the intention of doing that, so he had to write his daughter for his family soap recipe.
I think maybe the biggest difference was marketing. With Liszt, I feel like the composer was annoyed that these crazy people were following him hoping to get his dirty hankies. With Lafayette people were selling commerative plates, but they were doing that on their own.
I think there was more of a 1:1 equivalent with the fans of Franz Liszt. Historians called it Lisztomainia. The articles I read stated that his fans would fight over his handkerchiefs. Doctors were worried that his fans had a genuine medical malady.
You would think that. Then her name pops up in cities like Fort Smith Arkansas. I know Barnum was her promoter, but her name must have really been everywhere. Like Beatlemania.
