A big event is going to happen in one week. We have not seen such a big doing in, oh, about 760 years.

And it would be dangerous to try to see it because you just can't look directly at it. I'm talking about the solar eclipse. Yep. Next Monday, the solar eclipse will be visible, in full, in many parts of the United States. My area will just get a partial. Telescope jockeys and stargazers will sure have a field day, but anyone can try to take a moment...

Having seen the NCDOT quadrant plan for the Bells Fork area of Greenville, and not really liking the proposal; I thought up an alternative way to alleviate the traffic congestion on Firetower Rd from Corey Rd to Charles Blvd. My basic idea is to utilize the Old Firetower Rd corridor by building a very limited access four lane bypass adjacent to Old Firetower Rd for motorists that need to be in Bells Fork, but are not there to do business at the multitude of stores or offices in the area. For drivers...

Everyday I write out my longed for life,it involves above all the MA in Celtic studies with the university of Wales.I imagine myself discussing with my fiancé the subject of otherworld journeys,or welsh and my dissertation on Morrigu or Fand.I imagine updating my Facebook with shortbread recipes and love poems.I imagine sewing my own simple bohemian skirts with cotton and doing linocuts.I think how we'd have a vegetable garden of all sorts of things and big bags of lentils for hearty soups,damper...

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First off, I have never read a blog, let alone written one. I am doing this for several reasons. I will focus on one reason at a time. I am a stroke survivor. This is the ultimate reason for this blog. I have no idea if I am doing this correctly. Probably won't have any one read this either but that is ok too. I am working my way back to "normal", my normal. Just surviving the stroke is not enough. I have to present the new me while fighting to restore the old me. The old me is...