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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March 20, 2015

Renewal in Postcards 4

Now today I got up on the right side of the bed. It’s nice to start a day like that. Of course, I didn’t want to go to the pool, but I did. I’m practicing standing on one leg in the pool. A...


March 19, 2015

He's Such A Nice Guy in Postcards 4

I wake up in the mornings as Mrs. Ugly-Behaviors. It’s only with the greatest efforts that I restrain myself from groaning loudly or saying what I am thinking. He brings me coffee. I force my...


March 17, 2015

That Was Exciting in Postcards 4

So there we were, dressed to the teeth, standing in a flooded kitchen in our now soggy socks. The giant blue rug went into a bucket, and towels were strewn about to sop up the water. We fled t...


March 16, 2015

Friendship in Postcards 4

Seedys was a true friend that day; she rode with us up to the summit on the White Pass Railway. I know she had done it a thousand times with other touring visitors to Skagway and was burned out...


March 14, 2015

Oh, Vanity! in Postcards 4

On a clear day, you can see the mountains. Today will not be a clear day as the off shore winds will be blowing dust and desert detritus our way. Santa Ana winds will win this weekend through ...


March 13, 2015

HMS SURPRISE in Postcards 4

The SURPRISE against a sunset on San Diego Bay. Himself:The snow damaged cars are coming into the Audit queue. He’s got us into the last year of “West Wing.” Me: Bad accident where I had to de...


March 12, 2015

Busy, Busy Days in Postcards 4

I can’t do layout and paste up like I did in 1983. My cursive went after the stroke in 1989 first, then my carefully cultivated printing, then more small TIA’s kept altering things, then my dra...


March 10, 2015

Missing Her... in Postcards 4

I confess, this picture of Seedys and her Chevy truck was taken in 2009. I haven’t been to Alaska to see her since, but we have talked often since then. She’s become a friend over our many yea...


March 09, 2015

More Books in Postcards 4

We had breakfast with Captain Poolie, left, and her sister Mia Sunday. Mia, that wonderful woman, donated 8 bags of books to the Discovery shop. You know me, tho the company was grand, the con...


He needs a haircut. Really. I’ll take a book and go along for the ride. We measured my leg for a compression legging that will, hopefully reduce the water retention, the edema, in my right th...


After the pool and a quick bowl of rice cereal of some sort, I’m off to the store. Dear G has made me a half sandwich, today ham, cheese, and lettuce. I drop a small V8 into my orange plaid lu...


March 04, 2015

Wednesday Orts in Postcards 4

Comic Con is July 9 through 12. Imagine, you will have to listen to me talk about this until July. I’m looking forward to volunteering this year. I’m looking forward to attending. I apologiz...


March 03, 2015

Old Favorites in Postcards 4

“Good books are friends,” says the fortune from Saturday night’s Chinatown dinner. Yes, they are wonderful things, and I seem to own a lot of them. Unfortunately, I seem to have been making bad...


March 02, 2015

Going Visiting in Postcards 4

George was brave and drove us up to LA earlier than needed. No wrecks, no rain, but two and a half hours of traffic found us in the middle of a Chinatown Firecracker bike race. We had no idea ...


February 28, 2015

Those Moving Feet in Postcards 4

The clouds are black overhead, but none of the much ballyhooed rain has fallen. Storm surf pounds the retreating sand, and the sea gulls sit in groups their heads pointing into the wind. It’s...


February 27, 2015

Tuna Seiners in Postcards 4

We so rarely see the old style tuna clippers any more, so I was quite surprised to see the Chac Mool in Ensenada. Last time we were down there, all we saw were wrecks and very tired ships. Thi...


February 26, 2015

Words that Work in Postcards 4

I’ve been trying to broaden the scope of my thinking a little every day. I can understand the “Essential Dali Lama.” Merton and “Gift from the Sea” aren’t processed so easily by my learning di...


February 25, 2015

Bumpers in Postcards 4

I have little to say even to my truck these days. Yes, I talk to my truck, I talk to my shoes as they come untied and come loose, and I talk to my dinners and lunches. The days are warm and I...


I always like quilts, and this one offered a huge impact as I walked in the door to the Mingei this Saturday. It’s called a House Top Quilt. 1940’s, cotton. Am I looking down on a house….seem...


February 22, 2015

Refreshments in Postcards 4

He surprised me. We ate lunch out, and I went along with him when he went up to the park this noon. It gave me time to see the black dolls at the Mingei. I love that museum. And I could sit...


February 20, 2015

Family in Postcards 4

Pakistan: Brother and George. As George’s dad lay dying, his mother would tell us nothing. She forbad the doctors and the nursing home to give us any information either. We were allowed to v...


February 19, 2015

A Long Read in Postcards 4

I’ve been slowly absorbing the newestAnne Morrow Lindbergh volume of diaries and letters, Against Wind and Tide. I can’t read it in great chunks as I have done her other volumes, and in fact I ...


February 17, 2015

Rugs and Other Sundries in Postcards 4

I come home from my jaunt to the pool today to find the laundry going around, bread rising, and the crows fed. In response, I did most of the dishes. There were more hiding behind my back, lau...


February 16, 2015

Perhaps Projects in Postcards 4

I stir in the night with my brain filled with thinking, I wake still hoping for some clarification, and the day flies by with nothing clearly shaped. I’m determined to write more meaningful thi...


He feeds the crows first thing. Rushing yesterday. Perhaps he still feels guilty for using the hawk call to chase off the parrots for he also chased off the crows. Rushing through the morning ...


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