This post is a bit of a departure from the norm - it's a quick post about smartphones, and I'm obliged to tell you that it is part of a compensated post for the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® community so that you don't wrongly get the impression that I'm trying to be sneaky and pull the wool over our eyes when I mention products. :) As so many retailers and shoppers prepare for the impending frenzy of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday and so forth, my husband observed that ... View Post
Getting To The Point
This is the pencil sharpener from my grandparents' house in Mena. I love seeing functional things like this that don't deteriorate through the years - it's just as useful as it was on its date of origin. I'm relieved that it isn't totally foreign to my kids to sharpen a pencil in class, and despite moving my life closer and closer to paperless I still keep this and good supply of old-fashioned pencils and Field Notes Brand notebooks in close reach at my desk. It steel feels like a moment of ... View Post
The Merits of Life Handbooks & Grandparent Camp
When I was young, we lived in Kingston, Jamaica. Words can't properly convey the true depth of a childhood spent by an American girl in the West Indies. It's a story for another time... or a book. I attended Immaculate Conception Preparatory School, a private Catholic school where I was most certainly a minority in both race and country of origin. I noted, in visiting the website, that the uniforms (white blouses and skirts, blue ties, brown socks and shoes) are unchanged since the 80s. The ... View Post
A Gathering of Old Men
Yes, I'm a fan of the book A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines, but I'm also a fan of old men in general. Before that comes across as creepy, allow me to clarify. There is a raw honesty and knowledge and realness that seems to be fading as the members of The Greatest Generation fade into oblivion. I count myself as particularly fortunate that my lifetime intersected with theirs, and I regret that my children won't interact with this particular generation of people. My grandfather, ... View Post
