the thought stream of consciousness
our collection of writing and photos – as we are impressed positively or negatively about the world around us as we monitor the culture – below are the blog posts…
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Very cold and crazy. At the holidays. Is it a gift?
This holiday season started off as normally as it could. But then. The super-winter-weather-bomb cyclone event named Elliot (like a winter Hurricane) – the swooping down of the Arctic Vortex like this has caused havoc for millions of people this holiday: So, as you might expect, this is doing a big number on the US…
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December 11th
It was a little after the last bar that it happened. It was 2006 in London, just before the part where I took a right to cross The Strand, and they went left to get to Embankment Station to get over to Waterloo Station before the last train left for Walton-on-Thames. A birthday dinner and…
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Christmas AKA the holidaze
So, it’s been building. That overwhelmed feeling that comes in around Thanksgiving and builds until after New Year’s Day. Can I do what I need to do in time? What am I forgetting? Things cost too much. Can I make people happy or happier? What? When? How? Oh shit. Then the occasional panic attack, the…