November 2021 – Pisaries Creator

Flash Fiction: Shopping with Purpose

11/30/2021

Flash Fiction

No matter what you do, your glasses are always dirty. They smudge up quickly, even in the best of intentions, as you are careful. This is what you found out when you put on your mask for the first time and hundreds of times after that. It wasn’t like you had a choice. You didn’t
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More You Know: Top 20 Disasters by Cost and Fatalities

11/30/2021

More You Know

List of the top 20 disasters by cost in billions based on 2021 inflation (source: Wikipedia) 1986 Chernobyl with radioactive contamination in Soviet Union cost 774 billion 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami with radioactive contamination in Japan cost 423 billion 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake in Japan cost 344 billion 2021 North American winter storm in
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Journal Entry Type #112: The End is Not Near but Close

11/29/2021

Writing

I spent my holiday weekend working, celebrating a birthday (not mine), and eating way too much food. Before I could do all of this, I had to call the gas company to make sure the stove I had didn’t blow up my apartment complex and everything in it and pick up my car because it
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Trifecta #73

11/28/2021

Trifecta

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Trifecta #74

11/28/2021

Trifecta

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Poem: Like a Roaring Train at Midnight

11/28/2021

Poetry

The night is no longer nice, Yesterday has passed by, And summer is too hot Against your body on cool sheets. And he understands the desire Of how much you’ve transformed. Bright lights have burned out, Can’t see the curved tracks, The sea ice disappeared during the melting, And night revolves in one direction, is
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Poem: Make Believe Forest

11/28/2021

Poetry

Near the outskirts of the forest, a fox and bear reside. They have been friends for more than five years. Their cubs and kits have played with each other. They are two mamas ready to defend their turf. One day an owl flew into their domain with a chick barely alive. She was frantic and
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Poem: The Depths of Life

11/28/2021

Poetry

I remember there was a time I looked forward to the morning sun. The way the rays made lines through the blinds on the opposite wall. There’s something powerful about that, the amount of energy. I know I can’t be like Icarus and get too close to the sun. Even if I could, I would
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More You Know: Engineering Disasters

11/28/2021

More You Know

Engineering disasters takes place all over the world. Infrastructure such as bridges, aeronautics such space shuttles, and vessels such as ships have all had moments of glory and failure. Whether it be the fault of the operator or a combination with the design, these are some of the worst disasters in the history of the
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Movie Review: The French Dispatch (2021)

11/25/2021

Movie Reviews

Maybe with good luck we’ll find what eluded us in the places we once called home. -Roebuck Wright- There are not major spoilers in this review!!! A Nod to the Newspaper The French Dispatch is the tenth movie directed by Wes Anderson where he pretty much had control over everything about the production. As with
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End of November Quotes

11/24/2021

Quotes

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Documentary Recommendation: Mayor Pete (2021)

11/24/2021

Amazon Recommendations, Politics, U.S. Government

Mayor Pete was interesting to watch this because the public rarely gets to see what happens behind closed doors of a presidential campaign. When Pete Buttigeig became a household name and no one knew how to pronounce it, there was a rising division among the Democrats of young versus old candidates. There were die hard
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More You Know: Top TV Shows and Networks from 2021

11/20/2021

More You Know

Since Hollywood has ushered in the new best actor and actress to their movies, the older actors and actresses have often found a new home in television shows. This is a good and bad thing. Good in that TV has gotten better. Bad in that there is less variety in movies being made as well
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