Dark Sky Magic
Aurora Borealis, the Milky Way, and my own North Star. The US at night — NASA I love this map of the lights from space, but I have to look really hard to make out the outline of my particular...
View ArticleWords Into Sentences and Then Into Art
From the time I discovered that letters of the alphabet are there to make words, I’ve loved the words they make. As my reading matured I grew to love how those simple words could be molded into...
View ArticleI Am That Old Woman
And I’m betting you’ve already decided not to read this. Old Woman — Arthur Rackham illustration. (Public Domain.) There’s a story going viral about an old woman who took down a cashier because the...
View ArticleFrom Blogger to WordPress: Or How I’ll Never Brag about being Computer-savvy...
Hello. Sorry to bother you. I have to complain to someone and this is the only page still working properly around here. I’m here to bitch, so fair warning. I had this hare-brained idea to start an...
View ArticleWe’ve Done it Before: How the Community Comes to the Rescue.
I don’t have to tell you we’re in the midst of a near-total shut-down, trying to save as many citizens as possible during an already deadly pandemic. People who aren’t sick yet are hurting, too,...
View ArticleRhythm and Flow: How Three Famous Writers Use It To Draw You In
And what you can learn from each of them, as different as they are. Photo by Simon Matzinger on Unsplash There is a rhythm to good writing — a flow that draws you in as smoothly and deliciously as a...
View ArticleLove, Light, and Atheism
Yesterday someone tweeted, “What do atheists do this time of year?” So far it has six thousand comments, two thousand ‘likes’, and a few hundred retweets. Most of the comments were polite, considering...
View ArticleYou Didn’t Really Make a New Year’s Resolution. Did You?
Finally! It’s 2021! We thought it would never get here! It’s going to change everything! Or, god forbid, nothing. But we’ll change. It’s the new year. We always change. Or promise to change. Or...
View ArticleHi Everybody, I’m Trying Something New. Won’t you come along?
Moving to a new neighborhood. https://ramonagrigg.substack.com/ I’ve been away for a while so some of you may have forgotten all about me. So sad, my bad. I mean it! Some of you may just have happened...
View ArticleConstant Commoner has Moved.
Hello, readers, thanks for visiting. In my last post I told you I was packing up and moving to Substack and beyond, but Constant Commoner would remain. Well, this version of Constant Commoner will be...
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