tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62850952024-02-27T23:32:10.794-05:00Lark's SongThis is about EVERYTHING...and nothing! Adventures in dating, relationships, employment, creativity, health, and discovering the world from the viewpoint of a half-century artist. I am the right person, in the right place, at the right time.
"It's all in the timing."Larkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091698105413419299noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285095.post-20133926027702877622023-10-22T18:10:00.006-04:002023-10-22T18:59:59.923-04:00TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK - MINI STROKE PrefaceOn August 19, 2023, it was 5 am and I was playing my game on my tablet in bed, trying to get sleepy enough to go to sleep. The fingers on my right hand started tingling like it was falling asleep (but I wasn't!). I was lying on my left side as always and couldn't figure out why my right hand would be falling asleep. I continued to play. Then my whole hand was tingly. Then the right Larkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091698105413419299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285095.post-14672450678607607302023-08-04T18:49:00.000-04:002023-08-04T18:49:01.101-04:00SOUTH FLORIDA IN AUGUST - FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL! PrefaceAugust 4th, Friday, and it's 6:30 p.m. and the temp outside is 83 F (feels like 95). The low tonight is suppose to be 78. I'll believe it when I see it. This has been a brutal summer!StoryAlmost every day in July was FL over 100 degrees! We even hit 121! If you have to go out and DO anything in that heat, it's the feels like heat that will get you. If the humidity is down below 60% Larkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091698105413419299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285095.post-91598025938743405912023-04-15T20:31:00.001-04:002024-02-04T13:31:45.283-05:00WHAT IS IMPORTANT ABOUT BELONGINGS?PREFACEThe story of my life is that I have very few things that spark strong memory. I have lost so many "things" through my life from mostly moving. My collection of things gets smaller and smaller every time I move these days. STORYAt one time, I had ONLY what I was carrying on my back, in a backpack, with my sleeping bag lashed to it! (1980) I had left a box with my brother of just Larkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091698105413419299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285095.post-60821057872267888732023-04-04T19:00:00.006-04:002023-04-06T05:10:27.720-04:00TUESDAY, MEETING DAY PREFACEMy sister is in two groups which have meetings regularly. I don't join clubs or groups or associations. I'm not a joiner. I hate things done by committee. I had to be IN some groups due to my job as a teacher/instructor but I wouldn't have invited most of the members to my home, or been friends with them if I hadn't had to. It's not like I haven't tried some groups Larkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091698105413419299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285095.post-49687332046881632632023-04-03T16:00:00.002-04:002024-02-04T13:48:20.991-05:00MONDAY, WHAT DID I DO? PREFACEOne of the advantages to being retired is that no one expects anything of you. You don't have to set an alarm to get up. You don't have a job, coworkers, and a boss waiting for you to be a specific place, at a specific time. Retired means you've done your work (for the MAN) and you're done. It also means that if you aren't careful, you forget what day it is, or worse, what you did onLarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091698105413419299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285095.post-84042566644829203762023-04-02T19:30:00.002-04:002024-02-04T13:56:28.811-05:00MAXIMUM DENSITY PREFACEI am as heavy as I have ever been in my life. 250 lbs. It is insidious. The weight has crepted up and crepted up over the past 9 years until it has gotten intolerable. This is the line! No more! It stops HERE!STORY In 2009, I weighed 180 lbs and was in fantastic shape. Yes, I could have lost another 20 lbs and been very close to perfect. But that 20 lbs didn't look like it was Larkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091698105413419299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285095.post-70011964092446570202023-04-01T12:44:00.010-04:002023-04-02T19:47:40.791-04:00I HATE SHOPPING! I NEED MORE BANANAS! PREFACEGrocery shopping is the one shopping I hate most. But any shopping that entails me going to a place, parking, walking in, walking around until I find the thing(s) I want/need, taking them to the register, walking back to the car. Driving home. Then taking my purchases in the house and putting them away. WAY TOO MUCH WORK!STORYThere are two kinds of people, hunters and gatherersLarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091698105413419299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285095.post-26924527026180039552022-09-26T16:50:00.007-04:002024-02-04T14:05:19.359-05:00ESTRANGED PREFACEI never thought I would ever be someone with which the word ESTRANGED would be associated. But since my child blocked me on Facebook and refuses to answer any of the messages I send to her phone, then SHE is estranged from me. My daughter is a trans woman since 2019.STORYOn September 26th, 2021, my child posted to Facebook that I had broken her trust in commenting something that Larkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091698105413419299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285095.post-5848438019548554672022-03-30T17:50:00.007-04:002023-03-30T17:42:16.620-04:00EXISTENCE VS. LIVINGPREFACEExistence: the fact or state of living or having objective reality. A being of entity.Living: the pursuit of a lifestyle of the specified type.STORYYou can exist from day to day. Satisfying the elements of daily life that continues existence. A human being on life support with minimal brain activity or in a coma, exists. But is that living? If a person is aware of their Larkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091698105413419299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285095.post-40802166629029159902021-11-09T19:35:00.004-05:002024-02-04T14:11:28.153-05:00I GIVE UP DATING! PREFACEI give up dating! I give up all my online dating activity. Tinder. Geek2Geek, OKCupid, Plenty of Fish, eHarmony, SugarDaddy (LOL!), and all the others that I tried and didn't try. I got four good male friends but no long lasting romantic relationship from 18 years of trying.STORYAfter reading more than 100,000 dating profiles (not exaggerating) and dating less than 3 dozen guys, Larkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091698105413419299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285095.post-92101984940101790512021-09-28T17:49:00.220-04:002022-07-02T18:50:56.404-04:00HAPPY FUCKING 65TH BIRTHDAY TO ME! (PART 2) PREFACEAfter the encounter documented in Part 1, I sent the following messages. I didn't take the time to stew over what Ilde had said or think about how I should answer. I just replied from the heart. I was wounded. I had to address the accusations that my child believed to be true, but were not. I was confused as to why she would attack me. Say things that were not true.STORYAfter I spokeLarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091698105413419299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285095.post-60546403041981739632021-09-28T15:38:00.044-04:002024-02-04T14:23:33.280-05:00HAPPY FUCKING 65TH BIRTHDAY TO ME! (PART 1) PREFACEBIG 65TH BIRTHDAY! Not a happy one. Two days before, my transgender daughter cut me out of her life. I was devastated. Caught totally by surprise (not anything new as my child has kept me in the dark about so many things she was going through). You think you know what's going on in your children's life(lives), but you don't. I have only had three years to adjust to these major Larkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091698105413419299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285095.post-26498911837790287482021-03-31T18:57:00.015-04:002022-07-02T17:59:21.521-04:00ONLINE DATING SCAM (PART 2) PREFACEThis unfolded like several other online dating contact scams. The men establish regular contact and language that advances intimacy. They reveal personal tragedies of losing a beloved wife, having to care for the motherless child (usually female), and traveling for business a lot. They have some kind of weird career. An engineer on oil rigs in the Black Sea. A geologist working in Larkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091698105413419299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285095.post-76511933768127434962021-03-30T07:26:00.005-04:002022-07-02T17:52:46.997-04:00ONLINE DATING 2021: THE LAST SCAMPREFACEI QUIT!Okay. Here's the story of the last month. In "chapters" because it's a long story. It is a cautionary tale for single women everywhere. Pay Attention!I have been using online dating services since 2003. Yes, the beginning of the whole thing. I was a new widow then. I had been out of the "dating" scene for 20 years. A lot changes in two decades, but not as much as those particular Larkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091698105413419299noreply@blogger.com0Fort Lauderdale, FL 33325, USA26.1059556 -80.332451400000011-2.204278236178844 -115.48870140000001 54.416189436178847 -45.176201400000011tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285095.post-46135646695670083372021-03-11T23:40:00.009-05:002022-03-30T17:59:37.676-04:00SPRING FORWARD 2013 PREFACEThis is a "memory" post from Facebook that came up today. I figured I'd publish it here and now, just to keep it alive in my blog, if not in my mind.STORYMARCH 10, 2013:I am immobile on the couch, with my computer next to me, listening to Spotify radio based on 80s music (Don Henley specifically), my marigolds sitting outside in the dark waiting for me to come out and "finish alreadyLarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091698105413419299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285095.post-13284693390542733422021-03-04T14:13:00.003-05:002021-03-04T14:55:07.667-05:00THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE COVID-19 TUNNEL: WEEK 52! PREFACEToday I received my first shot of Moderna vaccine! It was uneventful and so far, I'm not experiencing any effects. Not even a sore arm. In 28 days, I receive my second shot and will be vaccinated against contracting COVID-19. STORYThere hasn't been enough time passed to be sure for how long the vaccination will protect. But at this time, it is recommended that we all get Larkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091698105413419299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285095.post-42506528431309793082020-07-08T02:26:00.000-04:002020-07-08T02:26:24.729-04:00COVID-19 WEEK 18: LET'S EXPLODE THINGS! 4 HORSES DEAD!PREFACE
Ah yes, the Fourth of July. Celebrating our country's birthday...during a pandemic. All public gatherings cancelled, meaning all the big fireworks displays are cancelled. Meaning what are the people going to do to show their patriotism and salute America's birthday and independence from a ruling country that didn't represent our needs and wants??? Let's blow stuff up!
STORY
The Fourth ofLarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091698105413419299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285095.post-736601276582704152020-07-01T02:21:00.000-04:002020-07-01T02:21:30.899-04:00COVID-19: WK 17 - PERSONAL MAINTENANCEPREFACE
During this pandemic, you might find yourself slipping on your personal maintenance. I've noticed a lot of the men growing beards and their hair. While salons and barbershops are closed or have been closed for many months, this is just an excuse to NOT shave or cut your hair. Also, it's a great thing that ZOOM does NOT have SMELL-A-VISION...LOL! I know for a fact that those attending Larkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091698105413419299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285095.post-25365121221544217412020-06-28T20:09:00.003-04:002020-06-28T22:44:47.461-04:00COVID-19 STAY-IN-PLACE: WEEK 16?!PREFACE
Here we all are. People going stir crazy, protesting wearing masks in public places, protesting civil rights (George Floyd murder, police brutality, murder by police of black people, Black Lives Matter...), people calling for de-funding the police (diverting funds to other community services that have been slashed and now the police have to do them), and a spike in COVID-19 cases since "Larkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091698105413419299noreply@blogger.com0Davie, Florida, USA-14.5994134 -28.6731465-90 -169.2981465 63.942912278115131 111.9518535tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285095.post-37004671340428339332020-04-17T16:01:00.000-04:002020-04-17T16:01:11.060-04:00COVID-19 LOCKDOWN - WEEK 6PREFACE
Six weeks into "stay in place" and I haven't lost my mind. I started limiting my travels outside on March 5th. I'm still here. I'm still healthy. I'm a homebody. That's what they call someone that doesn't go out much. Someone who stays home and lives their life in a smaller world than most people. It's not a choice I made but a choice I fell into after experiencing one last trauma that Larkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091698105413419299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285095.post-75555503175132905192019-06-22T16:13:00.000-04:002020-04-17T16:04:39.099-04:00FIRST DAY OF SUMMERPREFACE
Summer in south Florida is like living 8" from the sun. Daytime temperatures can 'feel like' 100+ degrees. Sure everybody loves to invade us when it starts to get cold up north. But when they leave, the REAL FLORIDIANS come out to play (or rather, stay in the AC and find other things to do...lol).
STORY
Just like when the snow falls and the wind blows a gale, and the temperatures drop toLarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091698105413419299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285095.post-35625335925980545812019-06-17T03:29:00.000-04:002019-06-17T03:29:31.542-04:004 DAYS 'TIL SUMMER!PREFACE
Summer in south Florida started in March! Truth be told, we've had a few days this spring that were quite nice. Below 70 degrees even. But when you're 8 inches from the sun, SUMMER is half the year.
STORY
Having lived most of my life in south Florida, I'm not surprised that it is over 80 degrees on April 2nd. But when it gets to be June, it's over 90 degrees every day! And that is just Larkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091698105413419299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285095.post-52910957921256219602019-01-19T16:04:00.000-05:002019-01-19T16:04:23.605-05:00HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019!PREFACE
A new year. What joy will this year bring to me? Every day is a new chance for joy. Not just the first day of the new year. But we all see it and mark it as a new beginning.
STORY
This year brings along with it the old problems of the last two years, since #45 was put into the presidency. I resolved last year to "unplug" from the news on the weekends on Friday night and not watch the Larkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091698105413419299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285095.post-35820335343943774972018-11-14T04:36:00.000-05:002018-11-14T04:36:23.337-05:00AND THE RECOUNT GOES ONPREFACE
I can't imagine the stress level at the County Elections office. There are protesters, Florida officials, and observers from both political parties vying for "their right to see every ballot counted" and to give opinions over ANY available media. #45 is leading the pack in misinformation and misdirection. There are not enough people to do this monumental job, but they persevere despite Larkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091698105413419299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285095.post-7736044180044577342018-11-11T04:53:00.000-05:002018-11-11T04:57:40.805-05:00EARLY VOTING IN BROWARD COUNTYPREFACE
In my two previous posts, I talked about being a pollworker for the primary and general elections this year. As a pollworker, I have to vote by mail or in person during early voting because I can't vote on election day, since I'm working the polls. In 2016, I voted by mail-in ballot. I was confident that my vote would be counted, even after the debacle of Bush vs. Gore and 50,000+ votes Larkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091698105413419299noreply@blogger.com0