Category Archives: Fun

Photo Friday: Wishes For 2021

Posted on January 2, 2021 by dbjackson

At long last, 2020 is in the world’s rearview mirror, and good riddance. We have a couple of weeks of craziness to get through, and a pandemic to beat back. But I enter this new year optimistic, for our planet, … Continue reading →

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Writing-Tip Wednesday: Why Do We Create?

Posted on December 30, 2020 by dbjackson

I just reread my first post of the year, when I first discussed my weekly blogging plans, and my goals for the months to come. I closed the post with “Happy 2020. May it be your best year yet.” How … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: Memories of “New Year’s” Passed

Posted on December 28, 2020 by dbjackson

I thought the ball would, you know, drop. As in fall. As in have a bit of velocity. I thought maybe it was made of glass and would shatter. THAT would be cool. I will confess that I don’t usually … Continue reading →

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Photo Friday: Live Long and Prosper. And Help Me Find My Mate…

Posted on December 18, 2020 by dbjackson

It appeared early in the fall, on one of our first frosty mornings. There it lay on the rails-to-trails path: a lone glove. It looked new then, a recent purchase perhaps. Surely someone would be missing it. This is a … Continue reading →

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Writing-Tip Wednesday: Holidays As Part of World Building

Posted on December 9, 2020 by dbjackson

I have written about the holidays a good deal in the past few weeks, but I have yet to address holidays as a topic in a Writing-Tip Wednesday post. Now, you’re first response to this might be, “Well, why would … Continue reading →

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Photo Friday: It’s the Most Wonderful Time Of the Year!

Posted on December 4, 2020 by dbjackson

As I mentioned in a recent post about Thanksgiving (which covered the December holidays as well) I come from a Jewish family and still consider myself Jewish, though we are not at all a religious family. Nancy was brought up … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: Our New Game Nights

Posted on November 30, 2020 by dbjackson

About a month ago, Nancy and I decided that we had been watching too much television during our evenings together, and that we needed something else to pass the time in this age of Covid and a world gone mad. … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: Random Thoughts About Thanksgiving

Posted on November 23, 2020 by dbjackson

I love Thanksgiving. It is, and has long been, one of my two favorite holidays of the year, along with Passover, the Jewish holiday that marks the coming of spring. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that both occasions revolve … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: Feeding Birds, How to Get Started

Posted on October 26, 2020 by dbjackson

Earlier this year, in the midst of spring bird migration, I wrote about my lifelong love of birding. I shared with you what birding has meant to me over the course of my life, and at the end I made … Continue reading →

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Photo Friday: Sunset Among Friends

Posted on August 21, 2020 by dbjackson

Last weekend we had a socially-distanced get together with friends at the home of one of the couples. Their house, as it happens, sits right on the bluff in our little corner of the Cumberland Plateau, looking west and north … Continue reading →

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