by E. A. Bourland | May 27, 2022 | audiobooks, elementary school, movies, reading, tv
TV, movies, audiobooks: I’m being poured into. Reading: I’m an active investigator. Both are good, neither bad. Mrs. Breeding, in my fifth grade class, read to us. The formidable woman softened as the story, told by herself, progressed.
by E. A. Bourland | May 14, 2022 | family
Happy birthday to Latha Berneice Dollar, my grandmother (mother’s side), who would today have been age one hundred and nine. She wrote long, lonely letters to me in her spidery handscript mostly while drunk. An articulate, observant writer who had a difficult...
by E. A. Bourland | Apr 28, 2022 | corporations, internet, language, memes, propaganda
I’ve been trying to get better about this. Before I speak or write anything I try to stop and think: is this something that a corporation wants me to say, for the corporation’s profit? Have I been programmed? Or have I done my own thinking? Not just a...
by E. A. Bourland | Apr 20, 2022 | COVID, masks
1. there are people in my life too young to be vaccinated 2. and people who are old and more vulnerable 3. and immunocompromised (eg. fighting cancer) 4. because that crap is airborne 5. and has already killed a bunch of people 6. and keeps mutating because people...
by E. A. Bourland | Apr 9, 2022 | Facebook, marketing, social media
Friends, just a little warning. I’m going to phase out my Facebook account, for a few reasons, perhaps chief among them being privacy. I would like to be slightly less easy to locate. Not that I have illusions about privacy anymore. I am also concerned that FB...
