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I woke up this morning with a sound track… “Why are you doing what you’re doing? Why aren’t you doing what you love?”—Danielle K. Gregoire I made a simpler, more streamlined menu for the website here and deleted the whole menu and could not get it recovered. Rebuild. Fine. There goes that afternoon. I made […]

(Got a comfy seat? This is a long one. Skim as you see fit. Or get a cup a cocoa and hunker in. ) Part of social media is to share what is useful, whether book lists, beautiful vistas, or safety information. To connect with dispersed people of shared interest or concern. It also means […]

Okay, new year, tidying, new things. You’ll see the header and its weird spacing is fixed. The pesbo logo has a refresh and isn’t stranded in space up there. I updated the pearlpirie.com with chapbooks out of mine, and phafours press which I haven’t done in a year or two. Updated my 2024 CV. All […]

The complement to mindful living is mindful reading.  I want to learn from what I read. I want to see what others have seen. I want to consciously read what is not standard culture fare. Something more offbeat or deep. I want to learn storytelling and cultural terraforming.  I leaned more into sci-fi this year. […]

On New Year’s Eve, the Times Square Ball drops for only 60 seconds over a measly 139 feet. What if we extrapolated from that and covered the entire year? Enter the Infinite Ball Drop. Tomorrow is an another day a new year. They warned me of this in primary school music class; in Joni Mitchell’s […]

Still a couple days left to read but I’m adding to best of list now, The Garbage Poems by Anna Swanson, illustrated by April White (Brick Books, 2025) which gave so many aha moments on chronic illness and concussion, and consumer culture, and pure amazement at her rendering poems from trash container text. and from […]