Spent a little time this weekend touring the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Shockoe Bottom in Richmond, along the canal. It’s an entirely different experience than the better known museum in DC, though it still has the same sort of solemn atmosphere. Not going to write much. But will share a couple of images, reflecting both […]

I’ve been following with some interest the recent news regarding the Boy Scouts of America’s overtures over the last week or so regarding it’s consideration of lifting it’s ban on gay Scouts and Leaders. I’m encouraged, yet a little surprised, given that as recently as last year, they publically doubled down on the national organization’s […]

Today has turned out to be a pretty big stress day for me. The actual events of the day, not so much, but rather the day when my body and mind have decided to just surrender to the ongoing siege that life has decided to conduct on my psyche over the last few weeks and […]

This is funny to me, because several women in my life are utterly fascinated by this particular fellow (the less furry one), if not full-on card-carrying members of the Cumberbatch Brigade (which is a much more polite way to describe them than is the common term): “We solve crimes, I blog about it and he […]

I sit here in my home office, perched high (well, at least 25 feet or so) above my driveway, watching “rain” drops bounce icily off of the roof of my car that’s totally not still stuck on I-95 weather panic. Yep, working from home today was totally the right call.

Despite the fact that I’m pretty well loaded down with, well, life, lately, I need to take my escapism where I can. One of the most convenient escapes is reading, as I’m sure it is for many of you dear readers as well. For the last few months, I’m plunging through my backlog of pulp […]

So, I’m done working for the year. That’s good. I’ve gotten really used to taking the last week and a half of the year and just not doing much of anything beyond basic household upkeep and the stuff that I want to do. The general lack of obligation to anyone but me, especially the part […]

I purposely don’t talk much about work here except in generalities; there’s something to be said for establishing some boundaries between my lives there and out here in the digital æther. That said, this new job involves some definite life-changing arrangements that seem like proper grist for the blog mill, so, I’m going to talk […]

The job upgrade has been the primary concern at the forefront of my mind for the last few weeks, but I did a couple of cool things this weekend worth mentioning, so I shall mention them. Friday night, I checked something off that’s been on the bucket list or whatever for the last seven years […]

It’s been a while since I posted anything particularly content worthy in this space. There’s a reason for that. A reason that I’d been wanting to talk about for a while now, though for reasons that will become clear sooner rather than later, it just wasn’t in the cards. See, today, I started a new […]