Articles:
2026
April
Chlöe:2: How Chlöe gets captured in one of her nightmares.
March
Chlöe:1: Chlöe’s story along with Hannah and Emily.
Hannah:1: A repeated dream from December 17, 2024 and continuation.
Emily:1: A short story about Emily’s journey into outer space.
2025
January
A Goodbar-Barrow connection?: Was my grandfather involved with the Barrow gang in the 1930s, or is it a case of mistaken identity?
Thinking about syntax highlighting: Thoughts about syntax highlighting for the site in late 2024 and early 2025.
2024
December
Random TextPattern tips: Textpattern tips I picked up for version 4.8.8 and forward while developing this web site.
Dream 2024.12.17: A dream in which Hanna gets vertigo looking outside a tall building.
The Oracle of Delphi, Priestess Pythia, Who Spoke Truth to Power by Julia Kindt: An article by Julia Kindt detailing the qualifications, job, and political ramifications of the Pythia at the Oracle of Delphi in ancient Greece. From The Conversation, theconversation.com.
The Traveller by Arlene Bailey: A poem by Arlene Bailey, from Return to Mago E’Magazine, magoism.net.
November
Reading glasses splurge: Wherein Hanna purchases some expensive, numbered edition AHLEM reading glasses.
Minimum Textpattern theme: The Minimum theme used on this site. We are using a customized version of this theme affectionately called Minimum Plus.
2023
January
Helm shutting down: The Helm server, touted as an on-premise home email and file server, shut down in 2022.
2022
December
A-series paper sizes: Notes on the A-series paper with attention paid to A3 and A4. Archived from papersizes.org.
November
Apple MacOS upgrading to Monterey: Notes on third-party SSDs when upgrading to Apple MacOS Monterey.
2021
January
Helm restore hell: Troubleshooting a failed Helm email appliance. Helm went out of buisness in 2022.
2019
November
Heliotrope behind think glass (Hex: March single): Looking at the March 12-inch single by Hex (released 1990).
October
Override file in SQL Server: How to use, in certain circumstances, a common table expression to override a database table in Microsoft SQL Server.
January
Richard Wild, January 4, 2019: Obituary for my uncle Richard Wild, my mother Bonnie Goodbar’s brother.
2018
October
Hugo ordinal abbreviations: How to create ordinal abbreviations such as 3rd and 25th with the Hugo blog framework.
2016
September
Martha Mills Goodbar, 2016.09.26: Obituary for Martha Mills Goodbar.
2015
March
Iona Abbott, 2015.03.15: Obituary for my grandmother, Iona Abbott.
2013
February
Questions about Hex answered by Donnette: A website archived interview questions from 1997-1998 with singer and musician Donnette Thayer of Game Theory and Hex.
2004
April
The Festival: A “vignette” short story by Hanna based on the anime Key the Metal Idol.
2000
June
A glance back in history to the origins of OS/400 (by Wayne O. Evans): Wayne O. Evans details the architecture of IBM’s System 38 (S/38) and how those decisions were reflected in Project Silverlake which would become the IBM AS/400 midrange system.
1995
November
The Magical Dance: A “vignette” short story by Hanna featuring characters from Oh My Goddess! and inspired by the Ace of Base song Waiting for Magic. “…boy I exist, waiting for you in a coffin made of glass…”
The Rising Sun: A “vignette” short story by Hanna crossover Oh My Goddess! and VR.5.
1992
June
Escape: A poem by Hanna. No one on the barge but the Susans and Clyde.
Giftee: The First Book of Giftees called ORIGINS // Louisiana Scholars’ College and Louisiana School for Music, Science, and the Arts (LSMSA), 1992. // Found on an old hard drive in 2017 —Hanna
1990
December
Dec. 10, 1990 9:10am: The obituary of my mother, Bonnie Goodbar.
November
Bonnie's last writings: My mother Bonnie reflects at the end of her life. Taken from Grandmother Remembers, a memory book. She must have been working on it the last months of her life. She would pass away four weeks later.
1989
October
Sight: A poem by Hanna. Here I stand looking out from inside myself.
1987
December
Living With Sjögren's Syndrome: A high school paper written by Hanna outlining the Sjögren’s autoimmune disease. Her mother was diagnosed with Sjögren’s autoimmune disease in her twenties.
1980
February
Friends: A poem by Bonnie Goodbar. Can a simple word say what needs to be said?
1975
January
Interior Thoughts: A poem by Bonnie Goodbar. Gliding down slowly, into the depths, into a blinding, hollow, cavern…
They: A poem by Bonnie Goodbar. They say inflation is getting worse. (Two versions.)
1974
February
Iptsy-Tipsy World: A poem by Bonnie Goodbar. The moon shines in the daytime
1970
January
Conquest Of ---: A poem by Bonnie Goodbar. Good triumphs over evil, so all are told.
Come the daybreak, come the dawn (unfinished): A poem by Bonnie Goodbar. Come the daybreak, come the dawn.
Blossoms, Blossoms Everywhere (unfinished): A poem by Bonnie Goodbar. Blossoms, blossoms everywhere.