No Longer the World's Slowest Blog

I was never a great singer - never a soloist or a small group singer. But the frequent bouts with bronchitis killed what little singing voi...

 I've long enjoyed Wicked ever since I read the Gregory Maguire book back in 1995.  It was a twisted retelling of The Wonderful Wizard ...

Most of the country can’t drive due to a big snow/ice storm.  Some protests are happening in this country today, but many cannot go,  Put a ...

Remember "All in the Family?"  A frequent argument on the show was Mike screaming that the government was lying about the war in S...

This is a useful way to do something with the file folders you collected in the ‘80s and ‘90s.   Think of something to say. Write or draw i...

I love Stanley Tucci. Finally got to see his older CNN travels in Italy (now streaming on the Discovery Channel).  I loved the YouTube s...

I can't claim to have written this, but I agee with it and want to help share it as widely as I can. Please share it on your social med...

I wish there was a way to make Republican voters understand that Republicans in Congress are not fulfilling their oaths of office. All gov...

The SAVE Act is "disguised" as a way to help keep non-citizens from voting. In reality, it's a way to deny the right to vote ...

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...