Write Up The Road’s Blog Posts
Some people will view this coming Friday with trepidation. In my opinion, it’s a good day – because, dear readers, it marks the end of Mars being retrograde in Aries. And, of course, the day itself and its unfolding will depend upon your superstitious nature. If you have a different superstition for each day of […]
Friday the Thirteenth – good! Read More »
Then, in the next (last!) weeks of this terrible year, scrape together small amounts of time as often as you can. During these times, allow yourself to look ahead and anticipate. Plan. Think. And plan some more. Write those plans on your new calendar with expectations of fulfilling them. The Covid-19 virus cannot disrupt our
First task: get a calendar Read More »
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot, 2010 “A man sat in the passenger seat, staring straight at the road as if the car were moving…” Trouble is What I Do, by Walter Mosley, 2020 “smiled like a benevolent, deified moon.” “I took another taste. It was so smooth that I imagined a
Choice Bits (another in a series) Read More »
At this week’s bored … er, board and staff meeting, the IT guy got really exorcised about us creatives not writing long enough content to really justify even posting it to Facebook: “If you’re only posting a two-sentence quote, whoever’s gone up to Facebook will read the entire blog right there. They have no incentive
Hopefully by the time you read this column, you’ll have voted and be back in your office, at your job or at home, able to kick off your shoes and think of other things. Not of ships and sails and ceiling wax… Mercury resuming its forward motion on Election Day does have a tinge of
Ah, Mercury direct once more Read More »
Photo by Tyler Lastovich on unsplash “Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.” – E.B. White (author of ‘Charlotte’s Web’)
She’s all the ring wasn’t that expensive So he also bought me a car. And the dogs, Homer and Jezzebelle. When we broke up I sold the ring And he stole the car and totaled it. The dogs ran away. © 2020 Randy Stark Please visit my website at www.randystark.com and my page
Won’t you consider adopting a companion cat to have someone at your side this Covid-ridden fall and winter? You’ll never have to worry about what your cat might pick up at the local bar and bring home …
Thursday is National Cat Day Read More »
1512 German woodcut of ‘The Archer’ I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.~ Arthur C. Clarke What’s this odd green goo sliding down my computer screen? – MZ
“Do not multiply postulated entities without necessity.” And if William had lived much, much, later in another era or two, his 14th century intellectualism may have been traded for today’s five second philosophy. Now, he’d say, “Keep it simple, stupid.”
William of Ockham’s Razor Read More »