Category: Personal
After the fire
I remember the first time I saw images of what the 1988 wildfire did to Yellowstone: Blackened trunks of naked lodgepole pine jutting from scorched earth like broken bones piercing burnt fleshA charred skeleton of a…
By mikol
Falling Down and Getting Back Up!
This is my first blog entry so I'll keep it short.... How often I fall down (fuck up in other words) but I ALWAYS get back up on my feet. I'm giving myself props here because that's not an easy thing to do (getting back…
By rowdy816
What's In Your Heart
Photo: 'What's In Your Heart' - Winter scene, morning sunlit trees, with snowy branches - Color Photo Copyright 2018 Frank J Casella.…
By fjcasella
A Pauper’s Song-bird Bride
Lost in anguish, returningHome to a meal of ash,My stomach a bag of burning,All is forced from my mind like a fast. A sparrow scolded me from heightsAnd mocked my lonely misery.“Where are you headed this dreary nightYou…
By luke22
Хроники вялотекущего дистрохопа. Часть 1
У меня тут завалялся старенький нетбук Acer Aspire One 722, который теперь с трудом вывозит даже работу с родной для него Windows7 x32. Хочу проверить, насколько уверенно он будет чувствовать себя с более-менее…
By Alex Semёnov
Autoengaño
Me parece interesante el concepto de autoengaño. Bueno, de la manera que la interpreto: refiriendome a la manera como nos contamos cosas y hechos pasados, levemente distorsionados para ocultar nuestra impulsividad,…
By estenosoyyo
The Blogging Newsletters Problem
Photo: 'Making memories in the neighborhood' - Chalk on the sidewalk photo Copyright 2018 Frank J Casella - It's good to see in this day and age how kids in a neighborhood bond, and without the use of digital…
By fjcasella
Spouse
Having a spouse is not for the faint of spirit. It is not about what you say so get over the part when you think you didn't say enough. I am in a marriage that has some specific defecits. She is the type of spouse of…
Plötzlich doch keine EU-Panzer für Kiew? – Weil die Besatzung mitgeliefert werden muss
Die unendliche Geschichte westlicher Panzerlieferungen an Kiew spielt sich weiter vor allem medial ab: Mangels echter "Hardware" und weil Politiker im Westen für ihre Worte nicht gern geradestehen. Nur Berlin scheint…
By zonnik
Whatever happened to Travellin' Bob?
I've been a bit blocked lately. Not in the digestive-y way, you understand, but....well, in the head. Which is why there's not been a lot posted so far this year. My Muse, always a bit hit and miss for me, has buggered…
By travellinbob
France is CE Ewar!ness Month in 30 from today nomore yet!!!
I saw the most angry and compassionate pornographic displays as it was called iconic mostly by a french republican over here on the left saying the Owl Eagle Hawk has attacked papermills in key locations by replacing…
South For Winter
Photo: 'South For Winter' - A bird bath is full of snow, so the birds must have gone South for Winter - Copyright 2014 Frank J Casella…
By fjcasella