Hello! We’re still under the cloud of COVID-19, so I thought I’d give you a general update. As you doubtless know by now, I live just around the southern edge of The Tundra, on the NorthWest shore of the eastern most of the Great Lakes. The Five Great Lakes. Lake...
Read MoreThe Blogging Experience
I’ve been blogging for nearly twenty years, during which I’ve tried many things.
A Post About ME
I started off by writing a major told-you-so post about #Trump and #Elections2016. Wanna read what I wrote? Head over to the bottom of this post. I’ll put it there in italics. Not that it matters. We can only look ahead now. No use, as no one in my family...
Read MoreLittle Red Writer – 1
One day, Little Red Writer decided to write poetry. Now, poetry is very hard to do. Little Red Writer was little and unschooled. He had some words in his bag and he wanted to show his words to his granny, Facebook. Little Red Writer knew that poetry has rules. These are to...
Read MoreShameless Flamboyance!
I didn’t see it coming. It was all coming along so well. It came as a bit of shock actually. But let me back track a bit and provide some backing track to the song of my life over the past few months. I used to write this blog fairly...
Read MoreStocktaking
Stock taking is the business of figuring what you do have on hand. There was a time in my life when I was fooled into thinking I should be an accountant. I spent many a time walking around in 38c weather in sunny and shadeless factories, with a tape measure...
Read MoreMy experience with Social Media in 2015
2015 was the year I invested in a “social presence”. Here is my honest review and my responses to the current state. Facebook provides the bulk of my traffic, followed by WordPress. Facebook has destroyed the concept of Friend and totally diminished and warped the meaning of the word “like”.I...
Read More5 Great Passages
Well, 2015 is almost over and it is time to take a look back. I decided to dig through and collect some quotes. The best of the best. From this blog, of course. Didn’t you know? I’m modest to a fault. It’s probably my greatest virtue, modesty is. uh… one...
Read MoreLate Kate – Regret
I normally do not regret anything I’ve done. I did it at the time and based my decision on the situation at the time and the data available at the time. The situation was quite simply this – Kate Middleton was at the end of her first pregnancy and I...
Read MoreMore cleanups
Instead of simply reblogging something on this Thursday, I’ve chosen to make improvements to the site. Again. Apart from the ever-changing theme ( it’s a blue and white thingy now… ), I have made the following changes. These should make it easier to find posts. Some of the newer readers...
Read MoreA Medium post
Some time ago, I’d been pointed to Medium as an alternative blogging site. It was very new and, I’m sorry to say, I neglected it shamefully. It didn’t then have a vibrant well-established community and had a stark, minimalistic feel. It still is minimalist in approach, preferring to focus on...
Read MoreAbout Updates
Following the dictum “when you have no creativity to offer but a blog post is expected, then make some improvements to the blog and write about it”, I present to you NEW, IMPROVED: 1. An integrated About page. How cool is that? Other blogs have ‘a’ blog page, this one...
Read MoreHappy Fifth Anniversary!
Today is, according to WordPress, and WordPress should know, the exact day 5 years ago when The SloMan signed up at WordPress and stared at the screen thinking “What is this blog thing and how do you go about blogging?” Since that day, 5 years ago, The SloMan has seen...
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