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PROGRAMMING NOTE from the Author and Archivist


So obviously I just stopped blogging on this platform. I'll get back to it eventually. Or not. I'm taking a break from all social media. It seemed necessary for my mental health.

The last few years have been busy and … challenging:

- 2015 Happened.
- 2016 Let's call it The Lost Year. (Obviously words failed me.)
- 2017 about broke me. Literally. Mentally.
- 2018 was ridiculous, proving 2017 was just a warm up. (Good thing I was already broken so it couldn't hurt as much.#2018TrashCanFire I thought things were going okay, but maybe not?)

- 2019 was such a blur. I know there were highlights, but then stuff happened and carried into the next year...

- And then in March#2020 really took a turn. Who can even categorize 2020? Do we dare?


I kinda want a do-over of some of the last few years. But life doesn’t work that way.


So for now, I'm hunkering down. Regrouping. Trying to stay safe and sort some stuff out.


Stay safe everyone. Stay well.

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Friday, April 24, 2009

Monkeying Around with Elle

Readers of the comments on this here blog will remember that there was a special gift request for my niece Elle's first birthday. You've got to love all this newfangled technology that lets an Auntie see her nieces and nephews celebrate birthdays and other special events and open presents from strange relatives. Like this:



You've got to love little kids. They are so honest in their reactions. The verbal and non-verbal interactions between the sisters really cracks me up, but please pay no attention to the wisenheimer Pace Picante reference from the cinematographer.