BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Harold Kurtz covered some of of the current buzz about the Democratic candidates, the California recall election, and even Bush’s recent speech. It’s a great recap of quotes from other publications, interspersed with humorous and pithy asides. More importantly, though, it highlights some articles worth following, such as a Salon article that’s worth a […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I woke up this morning after listening to Bush, Ashcroft, and Rumsfeld’s speeches in the last few days and I thought to myself, I don’t need to fight Bush’s re-election – he’s doing a good job of not getting himself elected all by himself. After all, there’s not a one […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I forgot myself yesterday and in last week’s weblog posts and broke the taboo of Unmentionable Topics. I wrote about Things that Just Aren’t Said. Yes, I was critical of BloggerCon. I forgot that one shouldn’t mention anything critical of Blogger gatherings, especially those that involve so many of the […]
Years ago when I was in my 20’s my family received a very cordial letter from a distant cousin who was living in Salt Lake City. She was Mormon and was researching our family’s genealogy and needed some help filling in gaps in our shared ancestry. My Dad answered her questions and sent just as […]
I hadn’t been to a powwow in years and decided to drive down to the Trail of Tears Pow Wow outside of Hopinksville, Kentucky yesterday. The powwow stage was circular with hay bundles surrounding the area for the dancers, and behind them Singer tents and bleachers for non-participants. Tents selling foods and other goods were […]