Author: Serene Sargent

I make jewelry and try to read everything on the US Civil War and Reconstruction that comes out, (thereby knowing many smart people.) I know a bit of law, care about Beatles historiography and love the Nagras. Jane Austen whispered her Emma secrets to me across many miles and 200 years. ✨ My father was Bill Sargent, the Pay Per View Beatles guy. #DYRBRY

Unclog the pipes

I don’t give a shit about cats but only the 10 seconds (where I start the video) where Ed is using his “write bad songs”/”unclog the pipes” analogy That’s what  this blog is for me. Now fuck off. Peace. Ho, wait, I’m back! (I actually went and “watched” (listened) to the “awful” singing and guitar…

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Thank you Notorious RBG & “Notorious RBG,” the book

  Great point made by a Swedish journalist on parenting: “Actually, there is no biological connection whatsoever between the function of giving birth  to and nursing a child and the function of washing its  clothes, preparing its food, and trying to bring it up to be  a good and harmonious person, Both  men and women…

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Violin Frankenstein: IT’S ALIVE!

I am now actively using vaporizer parts inside the electric violins – and it is awesome. It’s like a fucking Reeses’ – peanut butter bumping into chocolate. I have no idea why I didn’t think of this on purpose a long time ago. I will report back —

Finally tackling the damn “DON’T” dance

Not so fucking easy and with the nerve damage there’s a bunch I have to change up; god, I realize now how deceptively easy it looks, but it is not. So, yeah, I need some kind of challenge to make me work. And Beyoncé isn’t doing it anymore and isn’t practical.     (follow up quickie non-dancer aside)