This week's sporkful

I have previously been on vacations where I posted full blogs every day. Not only did that not happen this time, but I did not even post dai...

This phase of my studies was inspired by a thread on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MPaarlberg/status/1560397489156624384  The first tweet say...

With Christmas cards coming in, a couple of them had letters. I ended up writing a few letters myself in reply, but I hadn't written a g...

Queen Sugar is done. I have watched all the episodes, and all the specials. I have written about Queen Sugar a lot, because it has resonate...

Getting back to Keeler's judgments about who is or is not Native American, there are a few things worth pointing out.  After her accusat...

From the articles I linked to last week , one of the artists listed as having Native American roots was Jimi Hendrix: https://coloradosound....

From Emergency! , Season 2, Episode 5, "Peace Pipe" Chet: I don't know what you're getting so uptight about. I've got ...

In getting ready for song selection, I compiled a list of all of the Native American artists I had reviewed; I had been meaning to see who h...

My sisters and I recently visited the Oregon Historical Society. That sounds like the preface to a post on the travel blog . There will be p...

No posts until Saturday (on the travel blog) this week. Be merry!

On a post from July 13th, I mentioned that I needed to read Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer: A Memoir . I finished it July 22nd. https://spor...

A few weeks ago on the travel blog I wrote about a visit to Bonneville Dam: https://sporktogo.blogspot.com/2022/11/columbia-river-gorge-bonn...

I am not actively working on it at this time, but among my other reading lists there is a sports-themed one. Three of my other reading lists...

Recently I was thinking about a certain relationship and wondering about its future. The impression came to me that nothing was going to hap...

Reminder that Fridays will now feature posts on books, movies and music, starting with music. Most recently, I have posted about combining B...

Yes, this is a day earlier than I have been posting. I am trying a little change.  While I talk about it more on the Sunday blog, I am a rel...

Prior to my first trip to Italy in 2006, I had only met one aunt, who had been to visit us in the States three times over the years. As the ...

Back to Won't You Be My Neighbor ..  there was another part that stayed with me, regarding his interaction with Fran ç ois Clemmons, the...

A few years ago I went through many books relating to death and dementia and wholeness, and wasn't sure that it gave me what I needed. A...

In a process that is going much more quickly than my emotional growth and healing, we are replacing all the floors in the house.  The house ...