September | 2014 | Beth Byrnes

Does not compute

Posted on September 19, 2014 22 Comments

I don’t know what your week was like but mine was strange. It started with the home invasion scare (all this time later, nothing new, except we changed all our locks to key only and are just paying more attention when we are outside). Then I had the silliness with magazine subscriptions. Next, as I […]

Iraqional exuberance

Posted on September 10, 2014 20 Comments

Well, my recent return to Twitterdom is already sparking new screeds. Liz Sly of the Washington Post recently tweeted from the Middle East in essence that there is no one there that isn’t scared to death, totally confused, and utterly depressed. I don’t want to appear glib or flip here, by this title. This is a deadly […]

Alas, through the looking glass

Posted on September 6, 2014 6 Comments

Look out what you wish for. This is the latest chapter in my ongoing love affair with my Nikon camera. It seems none of my passions are of my own choosing. They come seeking me out. Like Alice, when I am smitten with a project, I fall through some aperture and find myself in a wonderland of […]

Prophilia

Posted on September 1, 2014 19 Comments

This is not about the love of professionals nor a nasty perversive obsession. It is curious how synchronous life is, or is it that when an idea dawns on us, we are more attuned to its occurrences all around us? Last Saturday my husband parked my older model but spotlessly clean and polished car at the train […]