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I wrote this for Samantha Brown’s travel group on Facebook: We had an often wet but wonderful 3 weeks in Scotland & northern England...

I was interested in seeing Firebrand , as I'm a fan of both Alicia Vikander & Jude Law who were terrific in the lead roles of Queen ...

I really don't like Westerns. A few exceptions: The old TV show The Riflemen starring Chuck Connors. The Emigrants and The N...

I remember learning about trans people in the late 1960s in Time and/or Life magazine.  It made me think that they were talking about me.  A...

Spent most of today beating my head against a wall over bad user interfaces online. Allegheny County Real Estate - their database on propert...

 I was reading Shaina Feinberg & Julia Rothman's excellent New York Times article " I Asked My Mom if She Was Prepared to Die ....

  Well, as we get older and our bodies break down, things happen we don't expect. I've been a fat person most of my life, and took u...

I saw Barbie last summer and really enjoyed it.  It was charming, delightful and a bit threatening.  It had the production design of a Mali...

I just cried over a relative I've never met. Been doing some genealogy, and found a relative I was particularly fond of had no mother li...

Part 1 Part 2 By 1993, we had lived in Massachusetts for 11 years, had investments in stocks and 401ks and had bought our first house.  But,...

Part 1 Part 1 was basically "try not to live beyond your means."  I think if there had been cheap ways to invest in stocks to the...

I've always been interested in investments and sometimes been interested in economics. I've written two blog postings about these i...

A few years ago, either February 2018 or 2020, Jim and I were seated near the back of the American Airlines plane flying from Boston to Pitt...

The last few months, there's been a lot of info and even more opinions on Artificial Intelligence. I've also been not feeling very ...

January activity - 173 miles or an average of 5.3 walking miles a day. I closed all three activity rings on my Apple Watch 19 days (which...

I'd worked on a few elections in Pennsylvania, but the last time was in 2016. Some rules about absentee voting changed after that, but ...

Source Forge encourages people to write reviews of software products.  While I was once a strong Google evangelist, I'm not anymore, so ...

I don’t understand why anti-science people even want to attend science fiction conventions that have rules dictated by science to prevent il...

The Republican leadership of the Pennsylvania legislature is trying to turn Pennsylvania into the next Arizona vis a vis election security. ...

I've been helping Mark Olson and Leah Zeldes with research on Fancyclopedia , an online encyclopedia about fandom, conventions, writers,...