Author Archives: mathdreads
Renee’s Visit
Last December, my sister invited herself to the grand finale of The Austin Writers Roulette. Closing a show that I’d produced and hosted for eight years was stressful enough without entertaining a surprise out-of-town guest. She’d never watched any of the video clips of the show nor looked at any of the mostly pictorial summaries, … Continue reading
Spoken Word Audio Clips
Confessions of a Hat: Bamboo and Bones. A member of my writing group brought some of her hat collection. She thought it would be fun for us to wear them during the meeting. At the time, we were seated at a restaurant patio. In 105-degree weather. In the shade. With at least two fans blowing … Continue reading
Food Walk: MLK Celebration 2020
Periodically, my roommate and I take long walks for the sake of exercise. For our latest walks, we’ve included eating dinner, but for this particular food walk, we attended a Martin Luther King, Jr celebration at our nearest HBCU (Historically Black College/University). Although this was one of our longer walks, it was far more pleasant … Continue reading
Backpack Full of Cash Panel Discussion
The League of Women Voters’ latest sponsored documentary was “Backpack Full of Cash.” Even though I no longer teach, I still support public schools. This particular documentary essentially showed how big business has made an enormous effort to privatize education through charters and kill public schools. After the documentary, there was a panelist discussion, where … Continue reading
If These Walls Could Talk
As part of my MLK weekend celebration, I visited the Neill-Cochran House Museum. Here’s how I know I’m not a journalist: of all the pictures I took on the inside of this house museum, I took nary a picture of the outside of the museum. Throughout the museum, there were porcelain art pieces. Had I … Continue reading
Mad Hatter BD Party
This is how I know I’m fostering my circle of friends well: one of them planned a Mad Hatter party for her 40th birthday. Not only did I dash into my closet, which is half costumes, to retrieve my Mad Hatter attire, but I rummaged through my boxes of creative fodder to Mad Hatterly wrap … Continue reading
Success! But What Did I Do?
When it came to recording audio for my upcoming podcast, I thought it was merely an issue of buying professional-quality microphones, plugging them in and then riding that steep GarageBand learning curve. There were many more invisible steps involved in this journey, which didn’t take me very far, but I needed to take them. Once … Continue reading
2019 Christmas & Kwanzaa Cruise
On Christmas morning, I put on my best (and only) Christmas elf costume. We’d long since stopped waking up early in the morning to open presents. Now, the priority was documenting the Christmas scene, including our outfits before we dove into the gifts. When in actuality, the main picture we wanted to take was with … Continue reading
Food Walk: Impossible Meat
After hearing so much hype about the impossible burger, both from the marketing campaign and then from vegetarians/vegans, my roommate made trying one our latest food walk destination. I immediately coupled this food stop with a coffee shop that served alcohol to help the digestion of fast food. As we waited in line, we witnessed … Continue reading
Food Walk: Cowboy Santa
Since my roommate has trained for endurance sports for over a decade and I exercise every day, I can count on her to walk with me for a couple of miles at least once a week. This normally occurs when there’s no capoeira class or I’m not in the mood to work out in the … Continue reading