Intermittant Communications

A friend asked why blogs were not being written by me. When I answered "gremlins" her eye brows raised a bit. Having grown up in a time when this word was used fairly often, sometimes for questionable purposes (?), it comes back at times when the"hard luck and troubles" seem more evident than usual. What is it? Superstitions, perhaps. But when a string of misfortunes keep coming on it is hard not to take this personally, and even give names to it.

I would hope that this "string" is at an end, or at least occurs less often and with fewer "punishments." This is not a good time to have things which cost additional money and time prevail, would you agree? & yet they have and have continued up until this weekend. Something that I have intended to write for at least two months will be written next, and my hope is that whatever those "forces" out there that have been occurring will back off, perhaps even disappear for a time. It bring up my superstitious nature to even mention that they will not occur again.

Look up the word yourself, see what you think. I asked a fellow who works next door this morning whether his father ever used the word. "Oh yes," was his answer, and nothing else needed to have been said.