Category: Featured
Whatever happened to ...
… dressing up to go downtown? Today’s topic is courtesy of Sheila Stewart who also contributed this post on her family blog.…
By dougpete
EBLOG #2 ~ Friday October 6th 2023
Grab yourselves a cup of coffee! Good time-zone readers. Now then the origin of this greeting, at the very least the place I first found someone who used it, was on discord. I use it here as it respects users all over…
By enadasa
Whatever happened to …
… the joy of buying a new car? It’s been over a month but it seems like forever that we’ve been looking for a new car for my daughter. It sure isn’t like the old days.…
By dougpete
In Defense of the Written Word
Speaking less has its benefits. You expend less energy. You are less misunderstood. You do not have to tailor-make your words for the audience concerned, You become a silent observer of things both necessary as well as…
Today's Rambling — Painting
About fifteen years ago, I was a painter. I lived in the Northwest at that time and made semiabstract paintings which I sold to, mostly, a limited number of collectors that I knew. I never sold enough work to live on…
By daletucker
The Difference Between "Blogging" and "Posting"
Long ago before the advent of social media sites like Orkut and Facebook, diarists and bloggers were a predominant feature in the world wide web. However, with the advent of the above-mentioned sites, coupled with the…
Why Writing?
Writers live twice. They go along with their regular life, are as fast as anyone in the grocery store, crossing the street, getting dressed for work in the morning. But there's another part of them that they have been…
By Cezar
These are a few of my Favorite Things...
What does a writer need? Apart from words of course. And apart from the fact that the need to write is the dominant passion that regulates his or her life. That the need to express unsaid words and sentiments is perhaps…
Why privacy matters.
We've been through this already. You've either read or passed articles on why we should care, always with the same flavor, always done in the same way. But let me present a different take. …
By atsecbayz
My Current Work: "Datesville — Out of the Land of Bondage!"
My current work is a dystopian novel, set in the year 2068 titled: Datesville; Out of the Land of Bondage! A so called "Grand Depression" has engulfed the United States of America since 2029, almost forty years, and it…
By daletucker
The History of an Idea — Part 1
A few years ago I had a rather vivid dream. And when I awoke, I remembered its details clearly and I thought about it a lot. It prompted the setting for the scene which I've included below. So rather than describe my…
By daletucker
