in my regular “human beings are weird” musings, I have been thinking about what people do when someone dies, and… Read more in memoriam

Yesterday I visited the Desolation of Smaug, or rather King of Prussia Mall. I call it that because the outside… Read more glitter

I went to a celebration in honor of my deceased neighbor yesterday. She died a year ago, but they were… Read more neighbor

I have read a great deal about so-called “artificial intelligence” (I recommend Emily Bender’s The AI Con, for instance) and… Read more not human

I figured I didn’t need to do anything special today, so I ordered cat food and litter from Chewy yesterday… Read more wait

I regularly go out to the suburbs on the bus to visit the place where my late husband’s ashes are… Read more complicated