BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I struggled for my first breath at 7:01 in the morning on the 18th of November, 1954. My struggle for equality began at 7:02. Last week, Kos of the Daily Kos published a post supposedly in response to some people who were offended by an ad at his site. The ad […]
I took my camera outside this morning, and then had to wait for the condensation to dissipate before taking a photo. It’s not as hot today, but the humidity is breathtaking for only being the beginning of June. Considering that the coast has already been hit with its first tropical storm, I think we can […]
I had, in my flurry of modifications when moving from WordPress to Wordform, left out a modification to the code that enabled pings to work, and as a consequence, had not been pinging Pingomatic the last few months. Realizing this, I fixed the problem and started pinging this week. Unfortunately, the relative quiet I’ve had […]
It’s been a long time since I’ve indulged in any poetry at the site. Been a long time since I’ve haunted poets.org to look for just the right verse to suit a picture or a mood. This week, I oiled my inner poet and set it on its creaky way only to find out that poets.org has […]
A friend of my roommate’s shares a house with her husband out in the middle of a corn field — literally the middle of a cornfield–somewhere on the Illinios side of the Mississippi. They live happily in the small home with two dogs and three cats, and I imagine various other assorted and sundry wild […]