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Let’s Get Our Spooky On!
It’s October, so it is time to get our spooky on! I like to go gently into the scary night. No horror or too much scary for this girl. I think The Burbs is about as scary as I can handle, though I do watch the occasional ghost story with my sister. And we both…
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My “Alien” Encounter in a Bookstore
So, a gal walks into an (unnamed) chain bookstore–okay, so I was the gal and this isn’t one of those jokes. It’s a (mostly) true story. I usually shop for books online, because all I have to do is click and the books come to me, but this time I wanted to thumb through some…
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I was a Free Range Kid
My amazing sister gave me this Barbie™ on my last visit to her house (which is kind of like visiting Rivendale, only without elves and done in mid-century awesome). Instead of a river running through it, Barbies™ run through our past. I can’t show you pictures of our original Barbies™, because they have been seriously “loved,”…
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Why The First Ever Black Hole Image Is So Impressive
While I’m preparing the enter the #GrandmaProject (and preparing for the release of Maestra Rising), I thought it would be fun, or at least interesting, to take a look behind the picture of the first ever black hole. Remember that image of a black hole, the orange ring around a dark circle, you saw back…
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Would You Add Dragon Wings…
Rockets have fins, so why not wings? If you’re going to have wings on a spaceship should they be dragon wings? Elon Mush tweeted that he was “thinking about adding giant stainless-steel dragon wings to Starship.” As it shot through space to Mars the dragon wings could keep it cool during re-entry. “That’s important,” because…
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What Really Happened In Roswell?
The problem with the story of the Roswell crash is that the publicized information we’ve all been given is conflicting, to say the least. I’ve gathered the main details, so we can look them over. On Tuesday, July 7th, 1947 as Dan Wilmot, Roswell resident, and business owner, sat with his wife on their front…
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Can Pet Parrots Fly In Space?
Did you get up this morning wondering if parrots could fly in space? Well, then I am here to help you out with the answer to this question and some of the ways we are different from parrots. So worry no more. If you’ve ever been in a Spacecraft or Space Stations orbiting Earth, you…
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Get Lost in an Adventure
Did you watch the original TV show Lost in Space? Love or hate the movie adaptation (I hated it)? I have a love/hate relationship with “lost somewhere” movies, books, etc. On the one hand, I love “fish out of water” stories (characters in an environment not familiar to them), but after a while I get…
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Squirrels With Dissenting Opinions
Since the release of Pets in Space, we’ve been all about the pets around here, but I have not only been owned by domestic pets. Here’s a story you may have missed when it first posted: I have been owned by many pets, but I have also—entirely without planning—coexisted with what the hubs and I like…