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Columbus Day is still a Federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the Monday closest to the 12th of October. However, many states are renaming it, terming it Indigenous Peoples’ Day, and rightly so. If you have read the history of Christopher Columbus he was not a moral person. His treatment of indigenous people and people of color in general was abhorrent. Normally, I try to understand historical figures in Continue reading “Día de la Diversidad Cultural “
Señora and I went for a short stay a Pere Marquette Lodge to celebrate the February triplet of her birthday, Valentine’s Day and the anniversary of when we met, all happening within five days of each other.
Dr. Frankenstein’s Most Current Operation
For reasons inexplicable, early in this couple’s fiesta I related to Señora a behavior my ex developed late in Continue reading “Just call me Dr. Frankenstein”
yeah I know you did not ask!
As you surely know, the primary sensory input for canines is the sense of smell. Our particular canine, Princess Lily, has the common but troubling habit of rolling in whatever odoriferous substance she can find. This seems to be some sort of bold statement for dogs – here I am, I know you can smell me now.
Of course, this results in Señora giving The Wee Dog frequent baths. Lily tolerates these baths, but just barely. But she is so happy when they are over that she runs around the house crazily for five minutes. Señora being Señora, chases the ecstatic Lily and everyone is having a good time.
Thinking about this other day I came to the conclusion that if our precious little dog was human she would dress in wild, bold, colorful clothes that would generate jokes about needing sunglasses.
Loud smells, loud clothes, all in the same ballpark… smell me, look at me!
And so it goes
I love this picture of Señora. It was taken in 2008 on the occasion of a group of us going skydiving. After jumping out of a semi-good airplane she has been ready for any adventure… including yours truly. What a trooper!
One of Señora‘s and I favorite musicians, the British folk singer Pete Morton will be at the Focal Point March 16. We will absolutely be there. Hope to see you there too.
A man, his guitar, and simple touching lyrics…
If you want to know more… Here is a link to Pete Morton’s website.
To buy tickets for the concert follow this link: Pete Morton @ Focal Point
The book, Dictionary of Word Origins by Jordan Almond, magically appeared in the downstairs throne room. Knowing my propensity to read during my regular regal ruminations, knowing my love of words, Señora finding the book at an estate sale, bought it and placed it in the throne room.
This morning I came across the following entry:
Poke bonnet: This bonnet got its name from the fact that the front of it “poked out” far beyond the face. A bonnet that didn’t do so was called a “kiss-me-quick”.
I cannot think of my mother’s mother, my grandmother, who the whole world called Mama Carr, without picturing her wearing her poke bonnet. While she did not wear it on her occasional trips to downtown Checotah, with chickens to care for, a garden to look after and a cow to milk, she was routinely outside, putting on her bonnet if it was the less bit sunny. Surprisingly, when I looked through Continue reading “Mama Carr’s Poke Bonnet”
yeah I know you did not ask!
I wonder if at the various universities and colleges that teach Internet technologies if there are special writing classes, perhaps in the Marketing Department under Internet.
There seems to a certain, very common style of article on many websites. There is a teaser headline that grabs your attention, so you open the article. You then start reading or perhaps scanning to through the article to find the tidbit that attracted you, but it is not readily apparent. So you scroll, and scroll some more trying to find it. As you do so you go past one advertisement after another. If you are exceedingly lucky you find the tidbit towards the end of the article, but it frequently has an O. Henry twist to it. Not uncommonly, however, there is nothing in article that relates to the teaser.
It is amazing what we humans are willing to do to other humans in the endeavor to extract money from them.
And so it should not go.
In my Spanish class this morning we were practicing the grammatical structure used in Spanish when talking about hypothetical situations. My teacher kept pushing me for more examples, and I was struggling to come with some after the first rush of inspiration. So I made up one about growing horns and chasing Señora around the house…thinking I was talking about being a bit randy (or horny, if you prefer) which, lamentably, is occasionally hypothetical as I continue this head long rush of aging.
“Oh Señor, I am so sorry,” my teacher said to me. Apparently in Mexico and probably other Hispanic countries when they say a man has grown horns it means his woman is running around on him behind his back aka he is being cuckolded. But it can apply to the woman too. He showed me a painting by the Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo, of herself, as a deer, with a huge rack of antlers and her body pierced by many arrows. Her husband, the Mexican muralist, Diego Rivera, was famously a less than faithful spouse.
Vive les différences culturelles.
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” ~~ Blaise Pascal
To see more Quotes for Day, visit this link: Quotes for the Day
I love this recipe. I made a batch for Señora and I tonight.
This recipe is from one of Paul Prudhomme’s cookbooks which is what I used. I did find it at Food.com so I could avoid typing all the ingredients and directions.
I should have taken the picture before we ate half of the skillet of jambalaya.
Paul Prudhomme’s Poor Man’s Jambalaya
Ingredients
Seasoning Mix