My House, Christmas Day 2004

The Weather, She Is Getting Interesting…

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.

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Goldfinches

The First Weekend of 2013

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

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The Health Of America Starts On The Farm

  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

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‘The Whole Nine Yards’ – Seeking a Phrase’s Origin In The Future

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” —

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1960 Christmas Card

I Received A Christmas Blessing…I Am Passing It On to You…

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

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More Seth Godin in Conversation

The other day I linked to a post by Mary Jaksch at her blog write to done where she was having a conversation with Seth Godin. Today she continues that conversation. The following interaction

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