Davy Jones of the Monkees has died at age 66. I was eight years old, a neighbor girl I often played with was nine when we got into a serious fight over which one of us was going to marry Davy Jones when we grew up. We were serious. Kids, huh? Only a few years [...]

I suffer from a strange psychiatric disorder that causes me to spontaneously volunteer to make curtains every time someone mentions that they are thinking about buying new curtains, even though I don’t particularly like to make curtains. So now I have to make curtains for the big window in my brother’s living room. Curtains are [...]

If you call a person who wears glasses “Four Eyes” wouldn’t it make sense to call a person who wears bifocals “Six Eyes”? Umm… anyway… I’ve been having the worst time with my current eyeglasses. They’re no line bifocals and the reading spot is in the wrong place.* When I am reading a book (or [...]

Referring to last Wednesday’s post about fabric and buttons: I cut out the turquoise flannel Friday afternoon. I haven’t worked on it any yet. The grandson was occupying the spare room this weekend and I didn’t have anywhere to set up the ironing board that wouldn’t be in the way. I rarely sew much on [...]

Sighs – What makes you sigh? Perhaps some things similar to what makes those people sigh. How To Sit At a Computer – No advice for those of us who wear bifocals. Floating Restaurants Animal Links – A long, long list Rainbow threads – beautiful 17th century poison case – They used to make the [...]

Busy yesterday, busy today. Might post something later but for now, just a quick embed. I don’t know why this was on There I Fixed It. This is a seriously cool chair. see more There I Fixed It

I’m stuck. It’s been a while since I finished the last thing and I need to start another sewing project but I don’t know what I want to do next. I have two more pieces of flannel for shirts and I want to make one of those because I would get to wear it right [...]

Scientists have regenerated a plant from 30,000 year old frozen plant cells. I love things like this. It looks so ordinary, like something I might find in my backyard.

The latest classic that I’ve read is Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. I’m sure most people know this story – a man stays young while his portrait ages. What’s really fascinating about it, though, is the psychological study of an exceptionally attractive and innocent youth who comes under a bad influence and grows [...]

Most people would probably say I’ve watched way too many re-runs of Star Trek (not to mention all those sci-fi novels) but I really don’t have a serious problem with this. (I first saw this article on Facebook but I had to search for one that’s a little less “OMG! We’re all gonna die!”) Yeah, [...]

This morning I stood in line for an hour to get an ugly picture of myself. (i.e. I got my driver’s license renewed) Here in Oklahoma, independent “Tag Agencies” handle most things car and driving related and it’s usually much faster and more efficient than the typical DMV, but this morning there was an unusual [...]

Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of John Glenn’s historic space flight. Kelly remembers a film that he first saw when he was in elementary school: A documentary like this would be dismissed today as slavish propaganda, and I suppose, in a way, that it is…but you know what, I just don’t care. Our space program [...]

At what point did we collectively stick our heads up our own asses, anyway? — here My mind was not just wandering, it was on an extended gadabout with time out for some lollygagging, and was toting a bindlestiff while whistling “King of the Road.” — there According to sources at the party, no one [...]

Actually… I’ve got nothing. I just typed that title hoping something would occur to me. Kelly Sedinger has been blogging for 10 years now and is still going strong. My own 10 year “blogiversary” is coming up in a couple of months, I think. I forget the exact date. It seems like for the last [...]

Snow Cats – An awesome Flickr gallery. I found it because one of my photos is included. The Enemy Within original ending – hmmmm… That was never one of my favorite episodes anyway. The history of the future of Mars Canine valentine Entertainment over-analysis – Six theories of the possibly-true-but-who-the-hell-cares variety Beautiful bookstores – Wow. [...]

This is delightful and I have several different thoughts at once. First, inevitably, is, “It’s not fair. So many people these days are living and remaining active into their 90′s and even past the age of 100; why not my mother?” The second thing I think of is that there’s hope for me. I’ve never [...]

It snowed this morning – only about two inches. Getting acclimated to a certain kind of weather or temperature range is an interesting phenomenon. If you’ve been living with below freezing temps for several weeks and it warms up to near 40°F that actually feels nice but if you’ve been living with 60°+ weather for [...]

I heard this on the radio yesterday.

There. I’ve just explained Real Feminism to you. You can throw all those books by second- and third-wave feminists away and quit reading Jezebel.com. — here I think these people should be exposed to toddler snot, then locked in a freezing basement with a bag of ragweed pollen tied over their head until they develop [...]

I found this sort of interesting little questionnaire so I thought I’d try answering it even though, as usual, I don’t have good answers for all of the questions. Questions #9 and #19 are outdated so I decided to write my own questions to replace them. Also, I’m adding a “Part B” to #18. So [...]

Bathroom humor, but it’s funny anyway. Alien Travel Reviews – Earth as a tourist destination Bees making plastic – Fascinating. Not honey bees. It’s a different kind of bee. If the RIAA ran the whole world Silliest food industry lawsuits – I’ve been stuck at Cracked.com for over an hour now. Snow conversation – Absolutely [...]

Wonderful! Think of the amount of work it took to make this little two minute video! via

The Giants beat the Patriots in the Superbowl. Again. Awesome! And now, no more football for half a year and I’m happy about that too. I do enjoy watching it but there is just too much football for me. We used to watch one or two games on Sunday and then the Monday night game [...]

At our house we don’t make a big deal of the greeting card holidays. Valentines Day is a sweet little holiday, or at least it used to be before the jewelry and lingerie stores took it over. It’s really supposed to be all about greeting cards, you know – cute, funny ones when you’re a [...]

We saw Joyful Noise last night. It was a fun, good old-fashioned feel good movie. (with the modern addition of sex and profanity but not a lot) Dolly Parton, no matter what the movie or the name of her character, always plays herself so one must endure a heaping helping of exaggerated redneck-isms as always [...]