I spent part of my youth in West Texas. The background music of those years was normally Fleetwood Mac, but in the summer we set our activities to the sound of the cicada. Sitting in the backyard on dark, warm… Read More ›
General Stuff!
I’m Having Hand Surgery
So, later this week I’m having surgery. I’ve had a couple surgeries before, but this is the first one where I feel like I’m actually having surgery. (Having my uterus snipped out a few years ago was a non-event. I… Read More ›
Keeping Kids Curious
Last week I wrote this post about a conversation I overhead in the grocery store, where a knowledge-hungry girl was ignored by her preoccupied father. My oldest son Richard visited that weekend, and I told him the story and showed… Read More ›
What do I have in common with this firetruck?
My friend Chip Taylor owns a fire truck (he’s single ladies!). Actually owning a fire truck may be part of the reason he’s single, he also owns a cool collection of radios. He lives in a beautiful part of Vermont,… Read More ›
For the Curious Soul
Never lose a holy curiosity – Albert Einstein Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. – Eleanor Roosevelt Curiosity is the lust of the mind. – Thomas Hobbes… Read More ›
Hint, it never worked well at all….
Long before computers, there were typewriters. Typewriters that did not come with spell checker or backspace keys that would instantly wipe out mistakes. What to do? Well, a variety of really quite bad products and items were invented to deal… Read More ›
Where I Keep My Brain
Several years ago I purchased my first Moleskine notebook. I’d seen them advertised somewhere: “the notebook that Hemingway used.” The original manufacturer of moleskine type notebooks quit production in the 1980s, and British novelist Bruce Chatwin famously bought out everyone… Read More ›
Tesla Time Travel Proof, and Naomi’s new man
As we know Naomi is enjoying her Galapagos and Amazon vacation adventure. However, she has besides having many exciting adventures, met the love of her life, Dr.Tarzan, a fellow tourist from Africa. They plan to settle together in Houston. Also,… Read More ›
Places I would rather live than PECOS TEXAS
My co-blogger Geek Goddess (not Greek Goddess) posted a long time ago about Pecos, Texas. https://twodifferentgirls.com/2012/11/01/crappy-places-to-be-from-pecos-texas/ Recently the people of Pecos discovered this blog, and were “our town is lovely!” and “how dare you!” and “you don’t like hispanics” (their… Read More ›
Ingeborg family, I have your trunk!
I enjoyed many things about living in Manitowoc Wisconsin. We discovered there were 15 bars within a 20 minute walk from our house. I’m not kidding. The bars all had high chairs, because going to the bar was a family… Read More ›
Two Different Girls 