California is the birthplace of much that is odd. Hurrah!! But recently, the State Legislature abolished the California State Board for Geologists and Geophysicists and tacked the rump onto the State Board for Professional Engineers and Licensed Surveyors.
Category: Just sayin’
Odds and ends and naughty and flighty and off the cuff and otherwise uncategorized
Fine Linens
In 1994-1995 Julie and I lived in London. It was newish to her; oldish to me since I had lived there between 1953 and 1969. I had accepted the invitation to be an Academic Visitor at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, University of London. No money could be paid to me but it was honor all the same. In our late 40’s…
goblin juices
A friend called me about two weeks ago, giddy with the excitement of a crazy new romance. She was excitedly flushed with urgent juices. She is a creative, literate woman; and in her bright-eyed joy was reading poetry again, and loving Christina Rossetti’s 1859 poem Goblin Market.
dirth of werds
Julie and I enjoy Scrabble. Except for when the game jams into a corner and one of us has all consonants and the other all vowels. Then we improvise on the rules, partner in our competition. Today we had a dirth of words but without any guith whatever, we used that little known word vaugeto…