As I'm still searching for my old VHS collection in my parent's basement, I have had no luck and it appears that they may be lost in space and time. Though I have found dozens if not hundreds of recorded VHS tapes, mostly from the 1990s, which I look forward to exploring one day and committing to digital to upload. Of particular interest was about 80 tapes of recorded Dark Shadows episodes. My mother grew up on the gothic soap opera in the '60s, and in the '90s she began recording every episode possible. Now I've inherited her collection. Commercials included, so there's a bonus with these tapes. What a treasure trove... A small personal jackpot of several cardboard Halloween decorations from the early 1980s were found. We used to hang these up in our home every October until probably the late '90s when they were packed away and lost in their basement of their old home. There is nothing special in the find that would blow anybody away, but I was happy to fin...

This is the 14-year anniversary of the blog. I've stopped writing here for months at a time, on occasion. But something always reinvigorates me now and then, and so I return to say hi. I started this blog all those years ago to kind of note the writing process on the novel I was writing. That story went nowhere, when I took a break and stepped away from the story for a while, and realized that I was simply not a good writer. That hurts, that inward deep dive into oneself. Several months ago I started writing notes on a story I thought would be fun to write. I just kept writing and writing. I'm enjoying the writing process again, so I'm going to stick with it until the feeling goes away. I hope it doesn't go away, but I understand this is how I am now. But there are other things I'd like to talk about here, so the blog has been changing a little bit to reflect the things that I love and enjoy. There are a lot of websites I enjoy reading that are into the things like ...