By Andrea Menzies
Many people know that Persephone was married to Hades due to eating candy-like pomegranates. However, the yearly time she went back to the underworld was October. This is an often overlooked origin to the Halloween story, and spirits traveling the roads of the Earth from the underworld in October asking for candy. The holiday was popular time for travel.
By Andrea Menzies
There are good events happening in DC and Maryland it turns out in 2024. I thought my Halloween was destroyed by the need for car and RV emergency repairs. I had planned to go to Texas and New Orleans to see childhood school friends for the holiday. I am single so I was hoping to talk to guys. I have met nothing but the most grotesque and abusive human sewage ever born going out in Virginia downtown so that is never happening again. A lucky break happened in that friends are going to DC and Maryland for events there, and can give me a ride. Halloween 2024 is not my wishlist dream, but it will have some fun things to do.
By Andrea Menzies
I have a mini RV, but the hitch rusted apart and broke. This has cancelled my New Orleans travel for October. Next time I will just get a hotel, or plan to sleep in a sleeping bag in my car. I wanted to carry more stuff, and have more room when traveling. I thought I could travel more often, and longer, and not needing hotels in an RV. The RV has been an epic money pit, and it was eating my travel money. If I had taken the payment money for the RV and put it in a travel account it would have done twice as well. The rust bucket has destroyed my October as I did not go to many concerts I wanted to see locally as I was purchasing supplies for the RV. Then it rusted over and broke when I tried to use it today! It sucked! I am selling it off this time for sure!
By Andrea Menzies
I managed to get my ballot and do early voting this week at the library. The election this year is NOT a good one to skip.
By Andrea Menzies
I am not injured, but the school I was working at had a real gun lock down today. I thought it was a drill as there are so many yet the guns were real. Teaching is somewhat simple and nice until it really is not in scary ways.
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https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/meadowbrook-high-school-lockdown-oct-11-2024
By Andrea Menzies
Happy Birthday to the late great author Anne Rice. A New Orleans icon to this day.
By Andrea Menzies
As the old saying goes if it is banned in Boston it will be a hit in Baltimore the next day. At last good music is going to Baltimore and DC once more which calls for music road trips.
By Andrea Menzies
Not only did a death in the family happen to me this week, but two of my school friends died as well. The pandemic is over yet MORE people are passing on in my life how is that happening? If you don’t laugh you cry.
By Andrea Menzies
My mom flew to California for a family birthday party Thursday, and I had to tell her how to post pictures to Instagram. I am feeding her dogs when she is gone. If it was me I would have 8 photos posted before I left the 1st airport. I would be on photo 100 by now.
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