Some reasons why I am personally “pro-choice”
A few of the many reasons I am Pro-Choice.
Continue reading →Ashleigh
Ashleigh is a septuagenarian wife, mother, and grandmother whose life spans a tapestry of names, stories, and roles. Her interests include genealogy, writing, reading, and gaming—each offering its own trail of breadcrumbs to the past and threads to the future. Though called by many names over the years, she responds most favorably and reliably to Ashleigh or Nonna.
To write, or not to write?
I have been instructed, on more than one occasion, that unless you are writing every day, you are not “A Real Writer”“TM & Pat Pending” So sad, too bad. I don’t write, at least not in the usual and customary sense of the term, every day. Yes, I am at … Continue reading →
The Rules: a flash fiction/drabble
A run-down of “The Rules” as seen by several personages, some of whom may be recognizable.
Continue reading →Tabula Rasa
A short drabble/slash fiction piece on the subject of writing.
Continue reading →I’ll Tumble for You: a dictionary drabble/flash fiction
A dictionary drabble/flash fic on the word “Oubliette” Harry Potter fandom, potentially NSFW for adult implications.
Continue reading →Moving day
After many years of having a blog on Blogger, Google decided to kill that service, and I decided to split it into a couple of different pieces. One, my gaming blog, has been hosted here at LookingBackwards for several years (ever since Microsoft killed off Live Spaces), and it is … Continue reading →
How to Be a Dad
https://wp.me/p3GS8V-nS This is a new podcast to me, I only learned of it today. This episode has me in tears, because of the difference between this father’s response, and that of my own father 45+ years ago. It gives me hope.
Continue reading →How Human Bones Reveal the Fallacy of a Biological Sex Binary – Pacific Standard
Science keeps showing us that sex also doesn’t fit in a binary, whether it be determined by genitals, chromosomes, hormones, or skeletons. Source: How Human Bones Reveal the Fallacy of a Biological Sex Binary – Pacific Standard
Continue reading →The Banner of Azure and Argent and Rose
Songwriting is either really hard or really easy for me, and there is not much of an in-between. And most of the time, I will get woken up in the middle of the night by a phrase, or a chorus, and if I don’t get it written down RIGHT THEN, … Continue reading →