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  • Falling Short of My Ambitious Reading Goal Again

    Goodreads is controversial for some people but I still use it to track my reading habits. They have a yearly “Reading Challenge” (everyone can set their own preferred amount) and my end of year report claims I’m in the “top 25%” of their readers having hit 88% of my goal. It does feel good to…

  • Winter Solstice 2023 and Other Holiday Happenings 

    The days have become short and dark, and it’s pounding down snow today, so let me remind everyone how I love this wintery time of year. Recently I got another new jacket, it was on a clearance sale rack around $20 so I couldn’t resist. My collection of outerwear for subzero temperatures has gotten a…

  • Batman Movies on the Bat Brain

    I rewatched the Batman movies starring Christian Bale recently. It ocurred to me though I thought I’d seen them all before, somehow I had missed the first one, Batman Begins. Maybe I was on medications that wiped my memory if I saw it because everything seemed new and surprising. I watched it on the streaming…

  • Limping Towards the 2023 Finish Line

    The Full Beaver Moon is a funny named lunar phase and last night it was impressive to behold for this vaguely witchy millenial mom. I didn’t go outside nor take any pics, it was a cloudy night with our first serious New York snowfall. But I sat in my dark kitchen drinking herbal tea and…

  • Ballet is Labor

    Nutcracker season is here and there’s always some kind of internal ballet drama to gossip about but this year is especially juicy and on-trend if you’re interested in leftist politics. The ballet dancers have gone on strike! Syracuse City Ballet company fired them after a walk-out but of course managed to quickly replace everyone. So…