2016-03-19 18:53
(Photo: Gravesite near Edinburgh, Scotland)It occurs to me that you could probably make a very good guess at somebody’s age by comparing the number of weddings to the number of funeral… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
I don't know what the meteorological factors are, but the first couple of days after a storm front passes through and a cold front moves in are generally a time for spectacular sunsets here… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
You know that one part of your brain that just never shuts up? The little voice that keeps going and going and going, every minute you’re awake? Eastern philosophies refer to this chao… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I don’t know why food, and the cooking of food, is so closely tied to death and sorrow in the Scots-Irish heritage that I come from. I just know that it is.This fact was made clear to… Read More
2006-08-23 02:39
In times of war, most nations seem to go at least a little insane, as though the violence triggers primal attitudes inside us that we prefer to think, in ordinary times, we've grown beyond… Read More
2006-07-02 02:10
Whoever said, “The older you get, the more you appreciate the small things in life” sure hit the nail on the head. If anybody had told me, 30 years ago, that someday I would hav… Read More
2006-06-03 01:46
Can’t win for losing. First there was the construction noise. Now, there’s the construction noise.For almost two months, the apartment building just uphill from our house got ren… Read More
2006-06-03 00:22
My granddaughter is in kindergarten now, and most days she likes the place a lot, which is good news. I also like the fact that her teachers routinely send home reports about her activities… Read More
2006-06-03 00:21
In years to come, I’ll remember this week as the time I broke the Hemingway Rule.I was driving past the mall and remembered something I needed to pick up. There was only one problem. I… Read More
2006-03-03 05:16
I sense a trend, here. On the second day of February, I posted a photo of a rainbow that surprised me in a hallway. On the second day of March, I wake to a rainbow on the bedroom ceiling...i… Read More
2006-02-16 20:23
In 1966 I was a junior in high school. The prospect of being drafted and sent to Vietnam loomed large in my future, and the world was an exceedingly dark and frightening place.If anybody had… Read More
2006-02-03 04:16
Some days, your hallway is suddenly graced with a splash of rainbow...from a tiny crystal ornament hanging in a window two rooms away, and which you'd forgotten about until the late afternoo… Read More
2006-02-03 04:14
Ordinarily, when I start getting excited about household hints it's a pretty reliable sign that my medications need adjusting. Not so, this time. Trust me. This is important stuff. This is a… Read More
2006-01-24 17:11
So, what makes me suspect that religious fundamentalism is on the rise in Uzbekistan? Check out this report from Ananova...Fur-lined Knickers BannedFur-lined underwear has been banned in Uzb… Read More
2006-01-22 05:19
Hear me, o ye young, and attend unto my hard-won wisdom. Of all the indignities and depredations to which we fall prey in middle age, few are more humbling than the experience of listening… Read More
2006-01-20 18:15
The last day of an old year seems as good a time as any to start a new venture, especially since the December holidays have given me time to stick a toe into the brave new Weblog universe by… Read More
2006-01-20 18:14
After working for several days of bleak midwinter in the mountains of northeastern Tennessee, I can verify that spring is still a good ways off. Not a leaf-bud or a jonquil to be seen.I did… Read More
2006-01-20 16:38
One quick afterthought (okay, two) on the previous post's commentary by John Steinberg, in which he says that one of the most basic questions for any religion is "What do you do when belief… Read More
2006-01-19 01:30
Do you ever come across an article that instantly clears up your confusion over some topic in the news? The ol' cartoon light bulb goes on in your brain, and in this piercing new illuminatio… Read More
2006-01-14 18:10
The good folks at Birmingham Weekly graciously asked me to look into my crystal ball and predict what the new year might hold for us all, so I offer those ramblings herewith as my two cents'… Read More
2006-01-11 15:47
’s>There's nothing quite like the first untarnished week of a brand-new year, when we all have an extra spring in our step and a head full of ambitious ideas just waiting to be trie… Read More
2006-01-08 04:12
One morning back in 1991, I woke up and turned on NPR’s “Morning Edition” news broadcast and learned that the Soviet Union had just been dissolved. Ordinarily, this would b… Read More
2006-01-07 15:25
Can poetry be prophecy? We should hope so...Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,We, the people, must redeemThe land, the mines, th… Read More
2006-01-06 14:34
Much food for thought in this quote of the day from filmmaker Oliver Stone:"Organized religion is for people who are afraid of hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been to hell… Read More
2006-01-03 14:21
When you look in the dictionary under "sports fan" you'll never find a photograph of me, despite my stint many moons ago impersonating a sports editor for a newspaper at a time when I needed… Read More
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