BurningbirdLoren from In a Dark Time is off to my favorite place in the entire world, Cannon Beach: There is something both inspirational and moving about the ocean. As it turns out, I spent my first honeymoon at the beach, but I also drove down to the beach to clear my mind the night I decided to […]
Grant me a modicum of patience on a continuing dialog about an Iraqi invasion. I’ve had a headache for the last few days that is becoming more and more demanding of my attention, so I’m giving it its way. My way of saying that I’m just not up for this tonight.
Tom writes today that he’s bowing out of war blogging: I think I’ve finally got the Iraq blogging out of my system. I wish I hadn’t allowed myself to get sucked into it. It’s not what people read my blog for. Readership seems to have evaporated. Emails and quotes have been conspicuously absent. I should have […]
Eric Olsen applauds Dean for his point-by-point response to my weblog posts, and since my refusing to continue responding to my posts in Eric’s comments is somehow seen as a ‘defeat’ by this crowd, I thought I would respond to every one of this Dean’s responses in this post. And Dean, if you want to respond to this post, […]
My last real hike was on a barely discernable path in the Ozarks. I walked through bushes that reached out twitchy branches, catching at my clothes as I tried to push past. Every curve in the path brought a new experience–a deer standing in a meadow, staring at me in startled surprise before bounding away; […]