Andy Griffin writes a great post from the experience of a farmer. If you haven’t visited The Ladybug Letter, you should… “What’s your ‘Plan B’?” a radio reporter asked business school students the other day….

Blue skies keep drawing me away from the monitor. Daytime highs in the 70’s keep me out in the sun. Until winter returns, I’ll enjoy summer. # Pretty simple, funny how it’s so hard…The Socratic…

“This is an excellent illustration of an ingredient-driven outbreak,” said Dr. Robert Tauxe, who oversees foodborne illness investigations for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So far, more than 470 people have gotten sick…

The naked trees to my west glow pink in the light of the rising sun, those to the north have the vividness seen only at either end of a day. # Good site on how…

       Why you should listen to him: Few writers approach their subjects with the rigor, passion and perspective that’s typical of Michael Pollan. Whereas most humans think we are Darwin’s most accomplished species,…

In case a snake ever comes in the office If you want to know the truth, I never sit down at this desk to write a sentence without a bottle of whiskey within my reach….

Sunrise through fog, clear skys above…The sun rises on one side, the moon sinks on the other. We start out in winter and warm into spring. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

“Creative Consultant for the upcoming Stargate: Universe ” http://bit.ly/hMhl Way to go Scalzi… # If I could just convince my wife…”Simplify Your Space” http://bit.ly/hoTQ # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Wandering down my Google Reader list today led me to Seth Godin’s Blog and his muse on Newspapers…Go check it out… I worry about the quality of a democracy when the the state government or…

Health officials are urging nursing homes, hospitals, schools and restaurants to throw away containers of peanut butter that have been linked to the 43-state salmonella outbreak. The peanut butter, manufactured by Lynchburg-based Peanut Corp. of…

Nice service for tweeting from a web page http://bigtweet.com/ # Cooking for Pollan! Yikes! http://bit.ly/62X6 The man continues to amaze. Too bad he didn’t want the government job. # I’m back to following Dave Winer…again….

There is something beautiful about naked tree limbs against a pure crystal blue sky. Take the time to contemplate the view today. It’s life. # One of my favorite short life lesson sites…Try this: http://tinyurl.com/5nqbah…

Mark Bittman at TED Why you should listen to him: Although Mark Bittman never formally trained as a chef, his pursuits as a curious and tenacious foodie have made him a casual culinary master. His…

The day is over half gone and I haven’t really moved. Other than throwing together breakfast and rocking a baby through a nap nothing doing. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

In my daily walks with our dogs I travel a route through the woods behind our house along a pipeline right of way then along Mustang Bayou to anther pipeline right of way and back…

The Power of Less Video from Leo Babauta on Vimeo.

While I was do my house-husband duty folding laundry I started to muse on the condition of some of our towels…You know you’ve been married a while when you hold up a towel and can…

When I went walking yesterday with the dogs I sat down for a while on the grass by the bayou. I kicked of the shoes and pulled of the shirt I was wearing and soaked…

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME you were dazzled? When was the last time you lay down on a block of granite and fell asleep beneath the sky? Our few remaining pockets of unconnected, unwired time—walks,…

Image via CrunchBase You can’t be on Twitter or FriendFeed and not be inundated with comments from and about Scoble. I don’t know how he does it, but it’s really annoying. I find myself relaxing…

Wow, am I relieved to see you. Wasn’t sure anyone would find me at my new address (or recognize me from NPR circa 1979). And having come out today as a casuality of the recession…

Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 61° F | 45° F 61° F | 56° F 76° F | 61° F 72° F | 58° F 70° F | 52° F It seems that 2008 is…

Bees are dying in droves. Why? Leading apiarist Dennis vanEngelsdorp looks at the gentle, misunderstood creature’s important place in nature and the mystery behind its alarming disappearance. “Nature Deficit Disorder”. Now there is a public…

According to Rob, I must have jumped the gun on his prediction for my horoscope. Aquarius Horoscope for week of December 25, 2008 Imagine you’re driving down a very wide highway that’s 50 lanes across…

FAR, far above the earth, the goddess of winter storms discovered mealy moths in her flour. Lifting the enormous bag, she staggered out of her cloud home and hurled the whole thing into the black…

From Coffee Muses A fifty year old Christmas Card greeting being sent from my family one more time just as it was in 1958. Merry Christmas all… I’ll be doing the family bit for the…

The MSM is full these days of stories of the demise of the MSM. Having argued continuously for limits in the ownership of news organizations I feel that a lot of these failings can be…

Sherry and I were in the car this morning heading to the grocery store for the weekly shopping and listening the Christmas music on the radio. I started thinking about what our children and grandchildren…

This is an amazing story…

Image by winzu via Flickr To get past the better half. WINEDALE — OK, I believe it. They’ve got me convinced. Here at the old country house in Washington County, winter has come to the…

The deepening recession has eroded the financial standing and optimism of a broad swath of Americans, nearly two-thirds of whom say that they have been hurt by the downturn and that the country has slipped…

Back last month as I began to think about what I was going to do with myself I wrote on a list that I was going to watch a video a day from the TEDtalks…

Coffee Muse I like coffee so much that I have tea for breakfast: The first cup of the day in particular is so good that I’m afraid I won’t be able to properly appreciate it…

Most of the evening we have been having snow flurries off and on. This following a day of falling temperatures and sleet. Considering that when I went to bed last night the temperature had just…

Already in free fall, the price of oil could soon push much lower as the effects of a global recession take hold. Crude fell $3.12, or 6.7%, to settle at $43.67 a barrel on the…

The irreverence of designers…

How do we manage to stay healthy in this season? Yesterday at this time it was in the 30’s, the wind was out of the north. This morning it’s 67 and the wind is balmy…

Image via Wikipedia I missed this last Friday when it played on the local PBS station…It’s nice to be able to catch it later on the “intranets”… Bill Moyers and Michael Pollan…What a pair. A…

Though coffee drinkers may be cutting back on the expensive drinks, they still are consuming as much as they did last year — an average 3.3 cups a day per person, according to a June…

We are heading to my mom’s to be with all of the family…So I leave just this… If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart

It looks like just about everyone in the house now has the flu…except me (knock on wood). What a great lead-in to the Thanksgiving Feasting. Tomorrow we head to my mom’s where my clan and…

Day 22 Post Freeman Three weeks and a day, the vacation is over…What now? I am still a long way from figuring out what the rest of my life will be…I guess the symbolical nature…

Reading my morning emails brought me this… 5 Myths About Our Ailing Health-Care System America has the best health care in the world. Somebody else is paying for your health insurance. We would save a…

Food is a microcosm of the macrocosm. Eating the right food is part of the solution to the problems of climate change and global hunger.(1) Resurgence Magazine is focusing on Food this month. I often…

At about 4pm on Monday afternoon this was what the Weather Underground had to say about the conditions here… Current Conditions Alvin, Texas (PWS) 68.9 °F / 20.5 °C Clear Humidity: 17% Dew Point: 22…

Verlyn Klinkenborg has something to say about what’s happened to our view of the stars at night…He starts out this way… If humans were truly at home under the light of the moon and stars,…