by KimBoo York | Jul 12, 2021 | Ponderings
I was futzing around online the other day and watched a video on ancient Rome by Mary Beard. It was, as most of her shows are, very enjoyable. Her love for the topic shines, and she’s as delighted as a child with candy when she can hold an ancient artifact or walk...
by KimBoo York | Apr 11, 2021 | Writing, Ponderings
I am not a perfectionist. That is true, despite appearances! I learned a long time ago, back when I was reporter for a regional news magazine, that “perfection never gets printed.” We had deadlines and even if a story wasn’t perfect, it still had to be typeset and...
by KimBoo York | Sep 16, 2020 | Life and all That, Ponderings
Today is September 16th. It is the day after September 15th. Back in late August, I wrote a post titled Legacy about the importance of this date: Mother died on September 15th, 1994, exactly one month after her 51st birthday. In less than a month, if I am still...
by KimBoo York | Feb 29, 2020 | Ponderings
Throwing Beauty Away “Being attractive to men comes with an entire host of social and sexual pressure that I just am not looking to invite.” The above quote is from a friend’s FB post, I think — I saved the snippet without attribution (bad writer!...
by KimBoo York | Feb 1, 2020 | Writing, Ponderings
What makes a popular story? I don’t mean a great one, although many are both, but rather a story where the setting, the characters, the events become legends? Actually, I think my question is: what makes a legendary story? I wonder about this a lot because that is the...
by KimBoo York | Jan 16, 2020 | Life and all That, Ponderings
Disclaimer: This is an essay about the emotional state of freedom as a mindset, but I do not buy into the belief that we create our entire reality — we live in a world with other people, with politics, with wars, with disease. Externally, we are all restricted at some...
