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Blog entries by Spinning Compass
This business with my electric bill gets stranger and stranger. We have an employee assistance program that supposedly helps employees with all kinds of issues, whether legal or medical or financial. It's supposed to be a help line. I've "used" it--if you can call it that--a couple of times...
It seems that I used a forbidden word the other day and so had my comments section locked, So I will be nice and try not to use it any more.
I was going to use the C-word to describe the widespread, semi-legal exploitation of trailer park residents all across the United States and possibly...
About three weeks ago a senior scientist at my company gave a talk on Ebola. This man has had personal experience with the disease, having been at Reston, Virginia when an outbreak occurred among laboratory monkeys back in the 1990's. Unlike the current strain/strains of Ebola, this one was...
The other night I came home from work and found my rent statement on my door, When I read it I just about had a heart attack. They had way overcharged me on electric! So I went to my neighbors and found that they had been overcharged even more, over a full month's rent. And what they are...
By now, anyone who is not living under a rock has probably heard about Michael Brown and Ferguson, Missouri. But how many people have heard of Michael Day?
Michael Day was a 13-year-old African American middle school student living in the Edison neighborhood of Kalamazoo, Michigan, who was...
My church is trying to get people to sign up for an introductory anti-racism training seminar. The full seminar is 2 1/2 days and costs $500. The introductory is only a half-day and costs $100. They are also trying to get grants to cover the cost of the introductory.
Both seminars are run by...
Yesterday I wrote about the necessity of having thick skin if you are creating something of yourself for the public. I'd like to share an actual rejection letter that I received. I don't have the letter but the words are seared into my heart.
To give a little background, I had spent at least...
I see that I have made another person upset with my frank talk about writing. That is her prerogative. However, I have to ask, what would this person's reaction be if she were to get a rejection letter, as I did, suggesting very strongly that the writer sounded emotionally unstable and needed...
Lately I have been working with several of my neighbors regarding conditions in the trailer park and in doing so am getting a crash course in trailer park activism. The first thing I have learned is that trailer parks exist in a sort of legal limbo. Much of the resources available to other...
The other day I had a conversation with an artist from my church that has left me in doubt as to whether I should continue my art--or whether I am heading down a road to heartbreak. But then, again, SHE may be heading down the road to heartbreak as well.
She was selling calendars featuring...
There was a celebrity chef (I believe it was Steven Raichlen of Barbecue Bible fame) who, when asked his advice about starting a restaurant, had only three words to say about it: Don't, don't, don't.
But, he went on, if you simply must go ahead and do it, here are some pointers. This is what...
The other day I got a flyer in the mail advertising a church carnival. It's from one of the newer area churches, one probably very much like the one I spent three years in. It promises fun, games, music. Come as you are, everyone welcome.
Now, maybe I am a bit old-fashioned and showing my...
Robert Frost's poem on the "Road Less Traveled" has been quoted so often it has become a cliche. Yet when I look over my life I see how much truth there is in that poem. Except that I didn't choose to take the road less traveled, it just happened.
I've been away from Aspies Central for...
Not long ago I foolishly went into a car dealership which was having a promotion even though I had absolutely no intention of trading in my still-serviceable and paid-up car. Several hours later, they had my car and I had theirs with payments. I am still not sure who got the better of the...
One of the questions I get asked a lot when people find I don't have a TV is do I feel I am missing out a lot? Actually, no. There is quite a bit that I am aware of, even without a TV. And one of them is the continuing saga of the Duggar family now in its second generation.
Now, I have not...
Yesterday I wrote about a short movie that was produced by some members of my theater group and the reaction of one of the parents to it. While I agree that it probably was not the most appropriate thing to show to an audience that included young children--and the person showing it was well...
Music Man is finally over. The kid that I thought would end up getting asked to leave actually turned out to be a halfway decent actor. Yes, he had some moments and some meltdowns--it was a pretty demanding rehearsal schedule after all--but overall it was a pretty positive experience working...
This morning someone at church asked me if I had lived in the area all my life and I said, yes, as matter of fact, I grew up on the other side of the expressway from this church. I said that not only did I remember when People's Church was built, I remembered when there was "nothing" west of...
As I mentioned previously, I am in a new play. This one has a lot of kids, and kids, as everyone knows, are wiggly and won't stay still long. But there is one little boy who is so beyond ADHD he makes everyone else look like they are on Prozac. He has some kind of syndrome; I overheard his...
I've been absent for a while because I am working on a new play, "The Music Man". It's about a traveling salesman who tries to persuade gullible people that what their town needs is a boys' band. They pay their money, and by the time the instruments and uniforms arrive, he is long gone. Until...