19 May 2018

MTV's Daria

She sounds an awful lot like me in high school. I loved that show. My husband thinks it was modeled after me. 



I don't have low self esteem ... I have low esteem for everyone else.

18 May 2018

Proofreader's marks

I love this. Borrowed from Facebook. I love Grant Snider and his Incidental Comics FB page. 



12 May 2018

A note about semicolons...

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"I’m pretty sure when I need a comma; I’m not so sure about a semicolon."
KEITH HERNANDEZ, a former Mets first baseman who has built a devoted following on social media and written a memoir.


From the New York Times 11/05/18

01 May 2018

Ukrainian Scouting

Vodnyj Tabir c1971 Stillwater Reservoir (I'm on the bottom right.)

In reading an interview with Sylvia Acevedo, the new CEO of Girl Scouts in America, I was reminded of the conundrum of growing up Ukrainian in America. We did not sell cookies. We had wilderness training.