This week's sporkful

In deciding how you will use social media, it has to be for you. I went over my usage yesterday, not because that's how everyone should ...

One thing I will have to do to successfully blog regularly is write ahead. Yesterday I started a post that was getting too long, but I reali...

At one point last week I was thinking about posting that if anyone needed help they could tag me in. That didn't feel quite right, espec...

I did not want to see Where Hands Touch - even though I was watching the work of Amma Assante - because I thought the movie was a bad idea....

Had already seen: A United Kingdom (2016) Watched for this: Belle (2013), A Way of Life (2004), Nokia "No Time To Die" commercial...

I'm not sure if anyone will find this a super-impressive transformation, but I feel better. The most obvious change for me is that the o...

Sometimes there are things that you need to do first before something else can happen.  That isn't really a contradiction; I gave two ex...

This is a link to yesterday's post for the preparedness blog:  https://preparedspork.blogspot.com/2020/09/resilience.html I had thought ...

It's an overly dramatic post title, I know; I'm just trying to be a little playful to take the edge off of my anger at Katie Couric....

Had already seen: none Watched for this: Fences (2016), The Great Debaters (2007), and Antwone Fisher (2002)  Have not seen: an episode of...

In yesterday's post, one of the key things about seeing and realizing things about myself is because there are these wells of sadness an...

There is a thing with both EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and meditation where thoughts will come up that you are not ...

I am job hunting now, which is not great on the confidence anyway. It is a little worse now because I have been out of the regular work fo...

Hark! A new blog post! You may remember that from June 12th through July 5th I was posting two songs per day, along with raising funds for...

I'm not much of a gardener. I want to be, but I don't know a lot, and often I don't have the means to put forth the effort that ...

It was an experience running two fundraisers at once. I think I could have done better, but I think that about everything I do. The decisi...

My last blog post was about starting the fundraisers, and now they are almost over. https://sporkful.blogspot.com/2020/06/fundraising-and-...

We all know that 2020 has been a year marked by trouble and disappointment. Recently something reminded me of the Blues Festival. Obviousl...

Obviously I am not thrilled with my performance, but at times it is miraculous that I get anything done. Anyway, I have finished the secon...

When we were only dealing with COVID-19, and people longed for a return to normalcy, I was thinking about how normal had not really been tha...