BurningbirdReading the new stories out today, if I don’t do my global traveling in the next few years, I might never have the chance: Observer story about a leaked climate report from the Pentagon (found at Allan’s) Australia having record breaking heat waves However, President Bush joins with the Church to assure us that these things can’t […]
I wasn’t in a crowd mood yesterday so didn’t go to the Grand Mardi Gras parade in St. Louis. Besides, I’d rather focus on the true Mardi Gras parade Tuesday night. I plan on taking my digital camera and my film camera will have the ISO 400 B & W film–what is, I feel, the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. When we were younger, our academic achievements weren’t measured from our growing conversational ability or how many facts we knew, but in how well we understood borders. There was that important moment when we would color in the coloring book and actually manage to stay within the lines. (Not to […]
Today was sunny and in the 60’s (that’s ‘warm’ in Celsius). Since issues are still open on the book I am foot loose and loosed my feet to Cape Girardeau today. Cape Girardeau is a Lovely little town on the Mississippi, with a smaller college (Southeastern), some great architecture, and about the friendliest people I’ve […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m at work on a longer essay for later today or tomorrow on another topic, but I wanted to make a comment about the gay marriages in San Francisco. Watching the story online and on TV about Gavin Newsom’s carefully planned act of defiance against the State of California, the weekend of […]