miscellaneous musings

Over Categorizing (Or Why Toy Companies Should Ditch Gender Labels)

15 March 2017

I love to organize and categorize. I routinely organize my collections of my books, music, and coin collection. I have categorized my books by genre, color, alphabetically (by title or author, sometimes both). I get giddy at organizing. I cannot go into the Container Store unsupervised—it’s worse than me going unsupervised into a bookstore. So I am all for … More Over Categorizing (Or Why Toy Companies Should Ditch Gender Labels)

PSA for February 21

21 February 2017

go right now and check your various reward accounts … More PSA for February 21

“Go home, Mother Nature, you’re drunk.”*

9 February 2017

*Quoting my friend Ann-Marie, who, upon seeing the spastic forecast earlier this week, posted this on facebook. I thought it quite appropriate … and funny. This week, Mother Nature has cruelly taunted us (at least those of us in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S.). On Tuesday and Wednesday, here in the Washington, D.C. metro area, we … More “Go home, Mother Nature, you’re drunk.”*