Daughter Number Three

A filing cabinet full of stuff I have stumbled across, but can no longer keep in hard copy.

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Impenetrable English

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This morning for some reason, the phrase "pick up where we left off" popped into my head, and I realized it's one of those Eng...
Monday, May 11, 2026

Talking Minnesota Turkeys

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Minnesota has more than 70,000 wild turkeys, including a substantial number of urban turkeys. They live here in Saint Paul (and Minneapolis)...
Sunday, May 10, 2026

How Big Bird Works

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A friend sent me a link to a video about Carroll Spinney, the man who was Big Bird from the time  Sesame Street began production in the 196...
Saturday, May 9, 2026

That Kind of Year

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I've been saving this one: It could have been posted any time, really.  
Friday, May 8, 2026

Economics of London, 1919

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I've read that Agatha Christie once wrote, "I couldn’t imagine being too poor to afford servants, nor so rich as to be able to affo...
Thursday, May 7, 2026

Now That's Emphatic

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I saw this in the blood-draw area of a clinic: The blue thing is a recycling bin, if I'm not mistaken. Not sure what kind of paper they ...
Wednesday, May 6, 2026

The Lost Art of Bus Passes

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I always appreciate posts by the English stationery and ephemera shop Present & Correct, and share some of their visuals in my BlueSky r...
Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Some Mural!

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I've had this tab open for a long time. It briefly tells the story of a mural in Lyon, France, created in 1987 by the artist collective...
Monday, May 4, 2026

No Bug Zappers!

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Take down your bug zapper, if you have one! I've never had one, myself.  
Sunday, May 3, 2026

Nicole Hollander

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I just learned today that cartoonist Nicole Hollander died on April 23 at the age of 87.   I first found Hollander in the 1980s, probably wh...
Saturday, May 2, 2026

It's Saturday

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I had a pretty nice day today and I will not ruin it by looking at social media. I had a meeting with a neighbor about trying go do somethin...
Friday, May 1, 2026

We'll Be Left with the Afterglow

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As sometimes happens after a BlueSky post, there's a remnant that's too long to include. This one is from a person named April Danie...
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Third of four daughters, raised in a rural area outside of a small town. Now living in a moderately large city, making media and immersed in other people's media. Finally cleaning out the filing cabinet and loading its contents to the cloud.

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