MageB ⋅ 83

Journaling since 1974. I'm an artist, book lady, and quilter living at the beach with a car guy. We wait out the pandemic in our little condo above the beach. Having been homeless in the 70's, the car guy and I truly appreciate where we are today. All entries are copyrighted under the author's legal name under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported. © Copyright 1974-2021.

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April 11, 2018

WARM SOCKS in Postcards 4

.......................................Train engine with worn US flag. I told my retired OR nurse friend that the CT nurse from Mercy Hospital sent me a note. “They want your money,” she said. I...


April 10, 2018

ACCEPTANCE in Postcards 4

*Pulley and lines on the Star of India. * Ever since I ground to a halt on The Crow Quilt, I knew I had to jump start myself somehow. Hit myself over the head with some new thinking. Get over ...


April 09, 2018

IN THE DETAILS in Postcards 4

The Great G isn’t happy with my morning coffee travel mug. I knock it over first thing in the morning. He buys a carpet cleaning machine. Two times later when I do it, I get a new and lower ...


April 07, 2018

COLLECTIONS in Postcards 4

I must say that I am very grateful for the donations of the last two book collections to our Discovery Shop. The nautical books now have over powered their little bookcase. At least I have al...


April 05, 2018

FADED in Postcards 4

There is something about my voice that no one around me can hear the commands that save lives, those orders now known only to me sway their way into the cosmos unheard as they fade away. In the...


April 04, 2018

AVIATION BOOKS in Postcards 4

• The Discovery Shop has received another excellent donation of books, this time they are of airplanes, airplane history, and turbines. • I cheated. This time I didn’t bring them all home ...


April 03, 2018

SPRING GREEN in Postcards 4

Glorious stuff spring green. I’m really enjoying seeing the leaves grow, see the grasses go from their winter greys, and see the sun out for a little while. Pretty soon we will have May Grey a...


March 27, 2018

LAST ENTRY in Postcards 4

Changes. Everything always changes. I started blogging many years ago on some hard to use site. My blog’s name was Day Tripper. It was fitting as I had been a day tripper not so many years...


March 25, 2018

SHOES in Postcards 4

My shoes are a mess. Who care’s…well, I do. I come home through the garage, take off my shoes near the wall, and put on my fuzzy slippers. The shoes pile up. And up. Margot was talking yeste...


March 23, 2018

FIRST THINGS in Postcards 4

I’m having a good time reading a memoir that actually has details. Like, what does she really do first thing in the morning? Me…I pull the covers up over my head as Mr. Pillow comes marching ...


March 22, 2018

RAIN, RAIN in Postcards 4

The rain is coming in over the ocean. You can see the wind blowing, and the surf churning as it throws kelp up onto the sand. The birds hunker down with their backs to the storm, and as do we...


March 21, 2018

A MUSEUM GATHERING in Postcards 4

I shuffled books successfully this morning. The shelves are full and customers are buying. Now Home, I have to find something semi humorous to wear to this third Poolie memorial. I think she ...


March 20, 2018

FINDING PAPERWORK in Postcards 4

• The Nautical books are now all separated into above $35.00 and below $35.00. I went in yesterday and priced these lower priced volumes and got them out on the floor. Everything got priced j...


2017: George in his “Fall Out Four series,” It’s a computer game. It’s time to fuss with the costumes. His needs to go to the cleaners, and mine needs a jewelry change….perhaps a wig to...


March 17, 2018

A BEAUTIFUL SATURDAY in Postcards 4

19 boxes of Nautical Books • What’s really happening: • Remember those 19 boxes of nautical books? It appears that we don’t sell anything under $35.00 on eBay. I get pull all those ...


March 15, 2018

CRUISING WITH ROCKS in Postcards 4

She called herself Mrs. Gotrocks and laughed. Traveling by ship used to be quite a production. In the 1800’s, you took your giant steamer trunk filled with everything you might need wit...


March 14, 2018

HAPPY PI DAY! in Postcards 4

From Linda Alvarado on Facebook. Math was always far, far over my head. My poor, brilliant parents had to put up with a child who couldn’t get beyond third grade math. No languages either...


March 13, 2018

OUR BERLIN WALL in Postcards 4

....if you are offended by my politics, please skip this entry. This is a photograph of one of the Border Wall Prototypes just this side of Tijuana. Photographed by John Gibbons for the San Di...


March 12, 2018

DISTRACTIONS in Postcards 4

Taken Saturday at the Mingei Museums show of unique and artistic books from local libraries. Photo: G. I’m so easily distracted today. When I go to check Facebook, I found almost fifty f...


March 10, 2018

HOPE in Postcards 4

Hope at last. George took this day off to be with me as I made my rounds. CT Scan at 0845, and I surprised the clerk with all the right paperwork. Then I was off to work where I discovered a...


list text here Niki St. Phalle’s “Le Poete et sa muse.” I need to do a lot more letting go. I can easily let my fear of failure fill my days. I can forget all I have learned and let thes...


March 07, 2018

BLUE SKIES in Postcards 4

HAL’s Maasdam with downtown behind her. Just for today, life is pretty comfortable and easy. I took G with me to the doctor’s office yesterday. My anchor. My prescriptions are renewed,...


March 05, 2018

RUTHLESS in Postcards 4

I confess. I read a lot of mysteries. New authors poke their way into my consciousness often….unfortunately. Yes, I have a lot of bookcases, but the one behind the bed is home to the myster...


March 04, 2018

JIM O'DONNELL in Postcards 4

He was a happy, loquacious, mathematical man. He graduated Chula Vista High School and moved immediately to San Francisco. “He was a randy young man,” his cousin told us yesterday. He had ove...


March 02, 2018

FINDING THAT BOOK in Postcards 4

Once long, long ago I asked my librarian friend Katy, sitting up there on the bench with me, how to find a book. She mentioned that she used ABE books to look for books at her bookstore job. F...


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