Remembering “The Dollar Theater” – Cinemark Carriage Place Movies 12

I’ve spent a good part of the day swinging on my patio overlooking the ocean, reading ‘Indigenous Continent,’ and writing about the summer coming to an end. I also read my post from 2016 about growing up in Golfview Woods. While I was back in Ohio this summer my dad and I went to the…… Continue reading Remembering “The Dollar Theater” – Cinemark Carriage Place Movies 12

Trip to Paris

It has been twenty two years since I last visited Paris. Unfortunately I didn’t write much about that visit except in this entry from December, 2000. I was a student then wrapping up my six months studying French in Lyon and Besançon. My fellow students are now mothers and fathers with teenage children living the…… Continue reading Trip to Paris

Hostess’s Song – Saijō Yaso 西條八十

I am a bar flowerThat blooms by night.Rouged lips,Gauze sleeves,Mad dancingBy neon light,A flower watered by tears. I am a bar flower, A sad flower,By evening a girl.By day a mother.Tear-dampened sleevesConcealing the past.They are heavy as the nightwears on.And not with dew. These are the first two stanzas of the Hostess’s song by Saijō…… Continue reading Hostess’s Song – Saijō Yaso 西條八十

GME, AMC Stockmarket Adventure

(Originally posted on January 29th. Updated on 4.10.21 – Updates after original post) Yesterday, January 28th is one that will go down in history and the history making will continue for a while. In short, the internet just discovered that by banding together common individuals can beat evil Wall Street hedge funds at their own…… Continue reading GME, AMC Stockmarket Adventure