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Cyber criminals

What I would like to do to cyber-criminals would me make seem like a crazed savage. When I was done torturing them, they would keel over dead. Victims. I was thinking of writing about victims. There are so many kinds. At one time or another, everyone is a victim of something. Here's the list I … Continue reading Cyber criminals →

Yetismith Uncategorized 8 Comments October 25, 2020 2 Minutes

No Utopia

Having wasted an entire morning trying to unscramble the login problems of my Pay Pal account, my nerves are a bit frayed. Fortunately, though, Lucy seems to have got the message that I really do not need her to march up and down on my keyboard to help. I was beginning to twitch. Eventually, I … Continue reading No Utopia →

Yetismith Uncategorized 2 Comments July 12, 2020July 12, 2020 3 Minutes

Priceless

The morning following my meltdown, we departed Calcutta and India, en route to our last and final stop, Dhaka, Bangladesh. My mental state was still not good and I had in mind that Dhaka was going to be difficult, what with the orphanage and more poverty. Perhaps my mental state accounted for why I had … Continue reading Priceless →

Yetismith Uncategorized 4 Comments June 8, 2020 4 Minutes

Meltdown at the Fairlawn

Worshipers bathing in the Hoogly River, Calcutta Probably, I ought to caption the photograph as being in Kolkata, but when it was taken the city was still known as Calcutta.... When we left Pakistan on November 14th, I had mixed feelings. There was relief, but from what exactly? The discomfort of being a woman in … Continue reading Meltdown at the Fairlawn →

Yetismith Uncategorized Leave a comment June 8, 2020April 26, 2022 6 Minutes

Camping 101

The origin of this quote is disputed, but it certainly applies perfectly to the journey I took in 1980, my "in at the deep end" introduction to camping. My Camping 101. Our return to Khartoum was very anti-climatic. Someone thought to acquire a newspaper. Bouncing around, in the middle of no-where for over two weeks, … Continue reading Camping 101 →

Yetismith Uncategorized 2 Comments November 10, 2019 4 Minutes
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