Sundays are always such a bitch? It’s pouring here, thunder unending, and cool, much cooler than when I took my three hour run early Saturday morning. I’ve had a graciously peaceful weekend. The days were full of work, but without a disturbing force of any kind except for the thunder, …
Pope Culture
I was writing in a closed journal system in high school, or was it Freshman year of college – how quickly things run together these days – when the priest pedophile scandal broke. I was horrified, and outraged then. I wrote about it, made a few enemies, and was obviously …
Clearing The Webs From My Blogging Toes
I sit here, after a few days of blogging quiescence, open my posting page (as habit dictates), and it suddenly occurs to me I have absolutely no idea what to write. Not only that, but my blogging appetite, usually ravenous, is suppressed. Is there some kind of stimulant I can …
The Away Note.
A comment off, wave goodbye. I leave here around 4 AM, my plane departs 6:30 ish, have to switch planes in Miami which is a pain in the neck, but the best option. Flying to Cancun via Chicago or Dallas wasn’t appealing. Five days. So short a time. I spend …
A Rolling Stone – It Ain’t Me Babe
I know this is a bit of a rolling stone, or a replicating virus if you will. A virulent strain I know, but I want to be part of this virus. “You’re getting a little thin up there.” McCain’s face reddened, and he responded, “At least I don’t plaster on …
The Truth is Out There
I went to see Body of War this evening. The post war injury experience of Tomas Young, a young man paralyzed from the chest down when after only five days in Iraq he was hit with a AK-47 round. A coming home statement. It is clearly a beautiful and important …
