I have two decks of Tarot cards: the recent one is a centennial edition of the original Rider-Waite deck, and the old one is an Alice In Wonderland deck that’s based on Rider-Waite but with Lewis Carroll imagery instead of the standard illustrations by Pamela Colman-Smith.

There are roughly….*looks over glasses at adding machine tape*…. Umpty-Bazillion questions I wish I could ask you, darling. At this point, I might as well throw another question or two on the towering stack. So far I have read three of the books on your reading list: Honest Illusions, Jackdaws…

This is a piece I love from a favorite film soundtrack- I love the film itself, too. I watched it a lot in high school, and just watched it again recently after a long absence. It holds up very well, and the insane practical effects are still impressive (and intensely…

This man is a library patron who would stop and talk to me whenever he came in over the last 3 months or so. Always behaved in a caring, gentlemanly way, and seemed genuine, spoke of his wife and children. He said he was a lawyer & I told him…

Thoughts have been simmering for a good long while about this photo: Why it keeps appearing and what it is meant to convey to me is a puzzle. Don’t ask me how I know it’s supposed to be communicating something to me- you already know. All I can come up…