This week's sporkful

For a quick recap, two years ago I blogged about allegations against musician James Dewees.  The allegations were on an Instagram page that ...

Let me start with some background.  One of my high school jobs was at K-mart, and one of the areas I worked was tidying the toy aisle. It fa...

For this current round of writing, I kept thinking that it would end up revisiting this post. I was having a hard time getting started, unti...

Back in 2018, some reading I did regarding Native American (including Canadian) history reminded me of some things from my mission. While at...

Twitter quality went down again, and at a time that demonstrates why that is an issue, but I want to keep it kind of short and positive toda...

I have not blogged about Hispanic Heritage reading since 2019. I still wish there was a better name for it. That section had two posts, and ...

Yes, I am still on Twitter. I have noticed some changes, and there are some things that I know are happening that don't affect me direct...

Machuca is set in Chile just before the coup against Salvador Allende in September 1973. Allende was trying to do reforms that included a m...

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...