9-11-2024I was cringing as I watched the debate last night.  Trump was pushing out lies so fast that Kamala Harris could not even express her amazement fast enough.  But the talkin… Read More

As with many persons who have grown up in literate households, all through teens, twenties and thirties, I corrected grammar, spelling and syntax errors everywhere I found them.  When I… Read More

This morning, I was scrolling my way through my Fb feed, when I saw an article on Caitlin Clark.  (They throw lots of CC posts at me.  So predictable.)This article was unusual.&nbs… Read More

When I wrote Galactic Voyager, I wanted it to be in our very near future; I wanted all the science to be essentially familiar from high school physics.  It was set (to depart Moon orbit… Read More

I don't usually extol straight romances; this one is not just a romance, but it is oh, so romantic!  Many stories get, sort of, tunnel vision, and use a textbook route from girl meets g… Read More

I had realized that Ella Emhoff, Kamala Harris's stepdaughter, was cute when I saw her in various news bulletins about Kamala Harris.  She's sort of a fashioned; in fact she's totalling… Read More

I don't have any major thoughts to lay on you, but I do have several minor ones. First off all: there's an actress who got left out of my list of favorites: Keira Knightley.  I lov… Read More

Watched the Democrat Convention on Tuesday night.  Amazing.  Michelle Obama was channeling me!  No, seriously; every sentence was perfect. I'm alarmed; what're they going… Read More

Another Caitlin Clarke Fangirl post!She has such a wonderful smile!My Facebook knows that I like Cautlin posts  (and they show you what you like to see, just to keep you coming back), s… Read More

Anyone who has read Helen at Westfield will know that I was a teacher!I wasn't one very long, but really, I don't think I could be anything but a teacher.  I try to be a writer, and a b… Read More

Wow, went to a Farmer's Market with some friends, and bought some tomatoes.  Just ate one.   Never buying supermarket tomatoes again!!!They had lots of cheese selections, that… Read More

I never thought that I would say that so cheerfully, but I am!  I have never voted Republican, and I never hope to.  Similarly, there are lots of Republicans who thought they'd nev… Read More

Tuesday, 13, August 2024What will the speakers say at the Convention?  I've only watched three of them (conventions, I mean), but I heard Hillary Clinton's comment about a basket of dep… Read More

Hello, dear friends!I keep scanning the news for more bad tidings, but there don't seem to be any.  (Trump and his team seem to be planning to sabotage the election once again, but I do… Read More

One of my favorite singing groups is the Bangles.  Their attraction was two fold: they were cute, and their music was fabulous!  The word 'fabulous' seems to apply to something tha… Read More

That's a terrible title; it really is.   I'll explain in a minute.  I never thought of myself as a crank,  but the older I get, there's more things that really upset me… Read More

As you all know, I spend a lot of time on the website DA, DeviantArt.  This is a website for artists of all sorts, on which they can put up (upload) their art.  There are also non… Read More

Caitlin Clark is a beautiful girl.  But now, on Facebook, there are dozens of posts about how awesome she looks in a two-piece bikini. Our gymnastic team is amazingly talented.&nbs… Read More

Dear Readers—regulars, visitors, everybody!No, nothing dramatically bad is going to happen to me!  I just woke up today in a sort of contemplative mood.  The politics of this… Read More

I'm getting all sorts of Caitlin-related news in my Facebook feed, and I'm torn between trying to understand them, and trying to ignore them!Sports News reporters are fond of jargon.  … Read More

I was relieved to see Kamala Harris endorsed by Biden, and Kamala getting on with the job.   She hit the ground running, and it seems to me that we should let her figure out how to… Read More

I got a new power-pack in the mail for my computer, and it soon could be working fine!!!  I connected it, and it's working better than it has for a year, but now I have to try to do mor… Read More

I was recently reminded about the stupid, ornamental pockets they put on most women's clothes.  I had switched over to guys' pants so long ago that I had forgotten. It appears that… Read More

Elections are an emotional and a stressful time for all voters.   Especially in these days, commentators are often.   laboring the point that Millennials are particularly… Read More

I haven't watched The View very much, but it seems to be a political talk show that leans heavily liberal. Recently—in not sure how recently—Caitlin was asked whether she wo… Read More

Well, there was a really bad storm over here, so I had been visiting my friend with the pets, the cat and the dog.   We had suffered through the storm, the loss of electricity, and… Read More

2024 July 15.I wrote in the Helen Blog, my attitude about the shooting.  I'm sure I'm not the only one who wishes that someone would take Trump far, far away.  But when it comes ri… Read More

Last afternoon we got news that Trump was targeted by a sniper on a rooftop, during a rally in Butler, PA.This is terrible.  Attacking Trump physically will make him a martyr, as some n… Read More

I've been seeing video clips of Yaroslava Mahuchikh's record-breaking high jump for months!  I was first attracted by her great exuberance, right after her successful jump, and then her… Read More

Thinking about hairstyles I see on the Internet —not really anywhere else; girls in our part of the world tend to do fancy hair only for special occasions—I have say, I'm beginni… Read More

 I'm not the only one! Read More

I think this girl should go in my list of beautiful women.  She isn't quite as devastatingly beautiful as the others on the list (but she certainly could give Fortune Feimster a ru… Read More

I love this holiday, even if I don't go out and party with lots of people!  I don't drink much, and the one day I drink a little more than usual is July Fourth.  I tend to like Gin… Read More

You know, who is running for President is important, but not that important, for most middleclass Democrats.If you're desperately worried about how to defeat the ex-President, how to ge… Read More

An actress/comedienne whom I love to watch, is Sarah Silverman!She's a little in your face, some of her utterances are phrased deliberately to make people wince, and—I wince.  &nb… Read More

President Biden had a bad evening debating Donald Trump (Debate 1).  In fact, President Biden had such a bad time that, in despair, I called for Biden to back out, and for a new candida… Read More

I was just watching a clip in which James Carville—a liberal political consultant—advises Democrats not to talk like women.  He says Left leaning women have spoiled the imag… Read More

I'm told that things got better as the debate wound on, but no.  Biden has had a good several years, but this campaign season is going to be like shadowboxing with a demented skunk.The… Read More

I had the debate on for about fifteen minutes, until it seemed clear that Biden was having trouble recalling specific words he needed.  You can't debate obviously in that condition.&nbs… Read More

I am so worried about this upcoming debate—this is Tuesday; the debate is on Thursday, as far as I know—that I have been quiet about it, not knowing what to say. On one hand, Bid… Read More

Lucy Maude Montgomery, the famous Canadian author, who created Anne of Green Gables, had a wonderful sense of humor.  It came to life nowhere better than in the story of Rainbow Valley… Read More

This is something I have been anxious about: (1) Are there readers of this blog—and readers generally—who are put off by the careful grammar of my writing?  (2) Are there re… Read More

This is a stacked image; lots of different images of the moon under different light conditions were merged to obtain it.  The original is on Instagram, on the 'Astrophotography' account… Read More

I had been puzzled about why Caitlin Clark's fellow players in the WNBA seem so hostile to her.  Well, just from what little I knew of human nature, I had to expect a little r… Read More

A lot of the images I'm down on DA now are of girls with thick, long, braided hair, with enormous cleavages.  The pseudo-photos are cropped, and it's left to the viewer to imagine how f… Read More

A glaring omission from my list of women I admire—from my.point of view, not from anybody else's—is Jennifer Garner!First off, I think she's super cute, even beautiful.  Som… Read More

Another thing I intensely dislike about the 'uniforms' present-day so- called beauties are depicted wearing are: super high heels. I never liked the things.  I have worn them, but… Read More

Well, dear readers of my Blog, all 13 of you (or fewer); I think of you as my good buddies, though I have never met you, and know nothing about you (but you guys know a lot about this elusiv… Read More

Just heard 'Mind Games' all the way through, and I just love it.I never understood why that David somebody decided to shoot him; it seemed a decision of a deranged man. Well, I'm going… Read More

I didn't say what the game is: it's SUDOKU!A lot of people could be put off by the fact that there're numbers involved.  But none of the properties of numbers are involved at all, … Read More