Weather At the computer this morning…Early… And I see a cold front has almost reached us. Since it is 67° at 7am and the high today is predicted to be 70°, I guess a cool front is called for. What really caught my eye though, as I looked out the window by …
The cache at AT&T finally cleared and I was able to get this site up and running… Hopefully, there won’t be as much trouble keeping this one up and running… Now on to the Mountain Dreams relaunch…
Ever since I started posting in this blog, it has been housed in a GoDaddy server. Over the years I have had a multitude of problems with keeping the site running at speed. In the past week CoffeeMuses has been down more than it was up…And when it was down …
With Ben Folds and Nick Hornby… Yeah.
I had spent the week watching the weather forecast. A week ago they were forecasting fog for the day. By Monday the forecast had a 70% chance of rain. By Tuesday the chances were up to 80% and it was looking like a washout. But tradition is tradition. So I loaded …
Yesterday my wife came home with a passel of worries about Obamacare. She wanted me to go online and find out if what she had been told was true. It seems one of her coworkers had heard something on the radio that had her worried. There was talk about the IRS, an …
Everyone lives with self mythology.
The more important a memory is to the story we tell ourselves about ourselves, the more often we rehearse the memory. And the more often we relive those memories, the less likely it is that they are true.
I keep coming back to the fact that this has been one of the gloomiest winters I can remember. We seem to have been stuck in the overcast since Thanksgiving. Just a day (or at most two) of sunshine each week or so. The only brightness in my days are …
When we go out, we carry some warmth into the night, and when we come in, we carry some cold into the house, a vanishingly small exchange of energy in a universe of such extremes. Verlyn Klinkenborg via Zero in the Dark – NYTimes.com.
We have fallen into the Texas Gulf Coastal winter weather pattern I remember from my youth…Overcast and damp…Cool and breezy… Just generally dreary all day every day. Though, I must say, after a few years of less than optimal rainfall patterns, a bit of dreary misty, rainy weather is appreciated. …
Mark Bittman makes the point in his column at the New York Times today, that the biggest killer of Americans isn’t guns but industrial agriculture. A point I have made repeatedly with my family over the years. …the root of that dangerous diet is our system of hyper-industrial agriculture, the …
The recent discovery of several instances of “the whole six yards” in newspapers from the 1910s — four decades before the earliest known references to “the whole nine yards” — opens a new window onto “the most prominent etymological riddle of our time,” said Fred Shapiro, a librarian at Yale …
Now that we have baked our cookies and trimmed our trees, now that we have wrapped our gifts and planned our dinners, now that we have hung stockings, sent greetings and set tables, assembled toys, trimmed wicks, written Santa and hung wreaths, the time has come to abandon it all, …
While he really didn’t go to my high school, it was at a high school dance that I met him when his band was performing. He was a friend of a friend. We lived in Pasadena and he lived in La Porte a few miles down Spencer Highway. There was …
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