#StetWalk on the Spokane River

I enjoyed all those quotes.

Quite a different experience, I imagine!

It was my first concert!

I also saw REM in 1984, in Seattle.

Late one night, heard a crash. Ran outside to see that my car, which was being stolen, had just crashed into my neighbor's car. The thief then backed up and zoomed away, and when I turned my head to watch him go, I saw a deer running down the sidewalk straight at me.

Agreed.

I do too, but I already see it happening.

Doesn't matter where you've been, as long as it was deep (yeah)

I thought that was very odd. Like, how is this relevant?

I use AI daily, but for only one thing: it's a kick-ass thesaurus. This is kind of like the way I used my Amazon Alexa exclusively as a kitchen timer & to be fair, I eventually got rid of it, because it was spying on me and snacking on my soul

Same. I note that it's like when I was a waitress: Either it's dead or you're slammed.

Interesting.

I couldn't ride my bike on Sundays because somehow it was against the Ten Commandments. Also I was not allowed to watch Gilligan's Island because Ginger was too racy.

What was it?

It happened to me. I nearly died, but then a doctor figured out he should check for that and saved me.

I also reminded him about the things, e.g., "You need to write a 500-word essay about your life goals by Monday." He ended up getting 9 different scholarships and had very little debt when he left school. He deeply appreciated it.

I did two things that I think were helpful: 1) I reminded my kid each day to learn one word from the SAT vocab list. 2) I spent three days scouring the internet for relevant scholarships and made him a spreadsheet so he would know what he needed to do by when.

Same

Three instances of "not this, but that" in one paragraph.

I often remember my 3-year-old daughter saying to me, "Mama, maybe you should have a specific place where you put your glasses."

Hurrah for you!

Do you follow Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social on here? He spoke at the CIEP conference a couple years ago. He's delightful with and about words, and a very nice fellow too.

I'm keen on the Plantagenets.
For a while I kept buttonholing fellow Americans to tell them exciting stories, but then I realized they were, somehow, not really interested.

You study plants all the time, don't you?

In Oxford, just for one academic year. I was studying at The Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies. I loved living in England.

I did too, when I moved there in 1983. It still makes me twitch a little.

Yup.
But not very many of us have them separate. I've seen that pretty much just in San Francisco.

Lovely.

Me too