Three years ago this month we were on Padre Island celebrating our 28th. Two years ago, it was the Blue Ridge Mountains and our 29th. Last year it was the Texas Hill Country and our…

For the last couple of days here we have been having really beautiful weather. Overnight lows in the low 50’s warming up slowly into the low 70’s. Cloudless, scrubbed blue skies. You know, the kind…

It’s understandable the drugmakers would want a roll-call accounting of who their friends and enemies are, considering the size of the investment they are making on Capitol Hill: in the first six months of this…

The world’s largest reserve for migrating Monarch butterflies, located in the Mexican highlands, is suffering from an infestation of bark beetles similar to outbreaks that have killed millions of acres of evergreens in the U.S….

The globe recorded its second warmest September since record keeping began in 1880, according to NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center. The combined global land and ocean temperature anomaly was 0.62°C (1.12°F), falling only 0.04°C (0.07°F)…

Record heat is forecast for today in the Houston area, but by late this afternoon or early evening a blast of cooler Canadian air is expected to drop temperatures through the weekend. Temperatures are predicted…

It’s that time of year again…15 October 2009 is the third Blog Action Day. This year the subject of conversation for the day is “Climate Change”. Close to 7,000 bloggers are participating this year. What…

It is beginning to be an everyday thing. A DM from someone on Twitter that’s not…Leading to a fake login page… Another day, another phishing or malware scam on Twitter. It seems like these are…

Two years ago we were planning our first fall trip to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and Virginia…Life has conspired since then to keep me from the mountains I love. I look forward…

Eating a hamburger should not be a death-defying experience. Too often it is. via Editorial – Toxic Hamburgers – NYTimes.com. This is where Food Policy and Health Policy come together. And the American people get…

“We as a party have spent the last six months, the greatest minds in our party, dwelling on the question, the unbelievably consuming question of how to get Olympia Snowe to vote on health care…

Please, let it be true… Fri 7PM Sat 1AM Sat 7AM Sat 1PM Sat 7PM Sky T-Stm Rain Chc Rain Ptly Clear Clear Chance of Precip Likely Moderate Slight Slight Slight Temp (F) 67° 63°…

Churchill’s argument was this”I have heard it said that the government had no mandate such a doctrine is wholly inadmissible. The responsibility for the public safety is absolute and requires no mandate!” And there is…

Currently (on Thu 5:53AM CDT from Pearland Regional Airport) Mostly Cloudy Temp: 82° (Heat Index 90°) Dewpoint: 77° Wind: S 6 MPH And so starts my morning here before the sun even rises…Come on…Feels like 90° and the…

Did I read this right? A heat index of 109… Today the high temperature will reach the low 90s, which is about 5 degrees above normal for this time of year. Coupled with high humidity…

We were awakened by the rolling artillery thunder of an advancing front…Weather not war, but just as shattering to a good sleep. The percussive sounds and flashes of lighning came booming through just before daylight….

A day isn’t just a standard measure, all the same size so each fits on a calendar page. A day is a period of light, an astronomical event. I felt that on the road that…

Watch it online now…But do it quick. They will only be online till Oct 9th.

Walking out to the mailbox today I spotted this guy growing at the base of one of our live oaks. I don’t know what caused the strange pattern of growth, but it is definitely different….

You may not need your sweaters, but mild fall temperatures are forecast to be nearly 10 degrees below normal today in the Houston area as light rain and clouds from a weak cool front help…

Rain chances increase to 70 percent Tuesday as the front approaches. The high will be near 84 degrees and the low will be near 69 degrees. South winds will be 5 mph to 10 mph….

Compare this… “We’re winning the argument,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) declared inside the hotel ballroom. “We know that most Americans are common-sense conservatives and that most of the people running our government in…

DALLAS — Recent storms in Texas brought some long-awaited relief to the nation’s most drought-stricken state, but the brutal dry spell is far from over as it drags into its third year. About 16 percent…

The insurance industry, of course, loves the Baucus plan. Need we say more? via Paul Krugman – Baucus and the Threshold – NYTimes.com.

I grew up with a strong support for the power of technology…But the abuses perpetrated in the name of technological advancement of agriculture in the past few decades have left a foul taste in my…

The past few mornings have felt nice…Low to mid 70’s to start with and a lot of clouds to keep the heat down in the afternoon. Not a lot of rain (as usual) in our…

Something I keep pushing in the healthcare reform debate…Agriculture is key to real reform. Recently a team of designers from M.I.T. and Columbia was asked by the foundation of the insurer UnitedHealthcare to develop an…

This is not Sword of Truth I was wandering around on Netflix the other day and discovered this series. It was available to view online. Since I was a fan of the original Terry Goodkind…

Here it is, the first week of September is almost done. The weather has teased us on a number of occasions in the past few weeks…But we are still dry and the temperature passes 90°…

I keep reading how this reform is dead. We have Texas Republicans in Congress claiming if the Dems pass a plan they will be back in power and repeal it. Yet, the only alternative they…

Nicholas Kristof, writing in his column, had what I think is probably the best definition I have ever seen of the state of our agriculture… I think I figured out the central problem with modern…

This morning feels different outside. For the first time in a long while the outside temperature almost matches the inside temperature. Walking out on the back stoop, for the first time since spring, you are…

A second blogger being sued by the mother of the late Anna Nicole Smith is set to spend a weekend behind bars for failing to do what a local judge asked. Teresa Stephens, accused in…

Not many people would knowingly pay more than $35 for a cup of coffee. But far too many people are getting saddled — with no warning — with outsized bills for minor purchases, under a…

After months of days on end with no rain hitting the ground at our home here south of Houston I was beginning to despair. But the last week has finally seen a small amount of…

…the public — struggling with the worst economic downturn since the 1930s — is looking on with great anxiety and confusion. If the drug companies and the insurance industry are smiling, it can only mean…

A good book is a good book whatever the weather or temperature. But summer brings with it the illusion of more free time, and just about now — when the demise of August makes free…

Cheney’s disappointment with the former president surfaced recently in one of the informal conversations he is holding to discuss the book with authors, diplomats, policy experts and past colleagues. If there is anything that could…

I realized yesterday about noon that it was exactly six months since my birthday. Since this was an auspicious anniversary being as how it marked fifty-five point five years on the planet, I decided to…

I have been incredibly blessed to be able to combine this love of calloused hands with dramatic and verbal skills. And that is why I promote direct marketing. Too often parents whose children express an…

I was sitting here contemplating the books piled on my reading shelf the other day and noticed an remarkable thing has happened…What once was predominantly fiction has become almost entirely not. Now bear in mind,…

It is mid day here in southeast Texas. The temperature is pushing 90°. The clouds outside my kitchen window are growing black and rumbling with a bit of thunder. In other words, we are back…

For many years, if anyone asked what I wanted to do when I grew up, I’d say I wanted to “build websites”. As I kept reinventing the job I did for the company I spent…

In the afternoon of summer, sounds come through the window: a tractor muttering to itself as it pivots at the corner of the hay field, stalled for a moment as the green row feeds into…

LONDON — In America, the health care debate is about to come to a boil. President Barack Obama has put pressure on both houses of Congress to pass versions of his flagship domestic legislative program…

There is a reason I plan to relocate to the Appalachian Mountains in the next year or so…And the following is a big part of it… Second warmest June on record The globe recorded its…

Today was mowing day around this place…Last time I mowed I picked up a bunch of nails in the tireson the Deere so the first order of business was pulling out the nails and plugging…

It was time for a bug fix upgrade yesterday. It wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t have so many places to run the “automatic upgrade”. And every upgrade of WP brings with it a…

I haven’t vanished from the face of the earth…I haven’t taken ill from the heat and lack of rain…I haven’t been shipped off for failing to amuse my wife (though I’m sure see is thinking…