I'm sorry I didn't see (or remember) your "joke about reading the only book on my shelves that I hadn't read yet" - A little private joke just for you. I do that a lot. And you miss them a lot!

Ha! I'll can half as many pickles next year, or better yet, have half of the pickles from this year left over for next year so that I won't have to can any pickles at all. You're an inspiration!! I have

LOL - I love the "dialogue" where each speaker has something different in mind though they're using the same words. And that "uh-oh" at the end is priceless. Thanks for the laugh!

Vaccine passports. "Proof" of who we are (show your ID to shop here, to to board a plane, etc) - Retirement! Thank you @owasco for another great freewrite. I love how your Muse takes over for

Oh, what a terrifying and stressful image - I'm glad it's past, and that you have a photo for "bragging rights" (wrong word, I know).

Flood or fire - is one worse than another? Floods may be easier to survive, and flooded homes may be salvagable, but fire... I'm sorry you're going through this!!!! Rarely do I speak of the flood of 1993

No, prophets and Bibles are not my thing - Ehrman is famous for explaining why the Bible is myth. (You know I'm agnostic, or maybe Deist, but that I pray out of habit 'just in case' it has efficacy)....

You're not gonna click the link to Ehrman's blog (who has time?) - and I confess I've not read every word of it - in fact, HE DID NOT WRITE this; it's a guest blog! oops! How to Sugarcoast Scripture but

Oops, I see the video link failed. Here's a copyrighted image, linked to the rest of the story:

Boy did I ever digress. I was on Bart Ehrman and the prophets (Daniel, Enoch). Ehrman didn't mention Atlantis or the the Moai. Oh, and here's the link: How Easter Island Statues ‘Walked’ To Their Stations

LOL - "You start at anchor, and set sail to parts unknown to you" - you nailed it. I digress. Always. For now, you may be thinking about the new world order, but not *exclusively - you think

Um, no, I can not see that you're having trouble freewriting, because you always freewrite so memorably and eloquently! I always write the same story - you noticed this during NaNoWriMo and March Madness

Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. I'll have to try it! I have so many unread books

Of course I looked it up! (But will I remember it tomorrow) #NPC stands for non-player character, a character in a game that's not controlled by the player or an AI. NPCs can be shopkeepers, villains,

"No one who would go to Anarchapulco is an NPC" - I have some catching up to do! What a dark post - the chopping block! As a farm kid who held the chicken legs while Mom chopped off the head,

Ohhhhhh that marvelous and massive maple tree, TOPPLED - what a job - and what a gift the trees leave us even after the felling! What a great tree! May you all live to see the next mighty maple (or oak?)

Beautiful! I love the black-and-white - so many many shades in between, it seems inaccurate to think of it as monochrome - "a single hue or color" - to me it is so rich and so varied. Great photos!

"Some people just aren’t worth the time or effort" - I hear that one a lot. It goes againt all that I learned and internalized from infancy. To love one another. Always. To forgive, unconditionall,

Awww, thank you!!!!

Maybe if I had ceased contact with toxic family members (e.g. my dad, "You idiot!"), my self-esteem might not have tanked, but the damage was done before age five. College was liberating and