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,…

Currently (on Sun 5:53AM CST from Pearland Regional Airport)   Clear Temp: 36° Dewpoint: 34° Wind: Calm MPH   After a gorgeous day yesterday, the sun is rising over the start of what looks to be…

Driving toward Kerrville along the Guadalupe River somewhere west of Hunt…

I have been out of the Photo Friday habit lately…It’s time to jump back in…

After years of having a daily routine, finding myself lacking one is more than a little uncomfortable.  Getting up and having breakfast without that normal get out the door deadline has left me disoriented to…

Turning The Page Sherry and I had scheduled this past weekend as a four day celebration a long time ago. Making sure we both had arrangements to take Friday and Monday off appproved and on…

Zell Miller was right sort of – Paul Krugman – Op-Ed Columnist – New York Times Blog.

The Guardian has this to say about yesterday… They did it. They really did it. So often crudely caricatured by others, the American people yesterday stood in the eye of history and made an emphatic…

Pre-Election Day Twenty O’Eight While everyone else is focusing on the election tomorrow, Bush and Company are getting a lot of the agenda they tried to pass and failed to do done anyway. The power…

This says it better than I could… First, we need a president who can speak English and deconstruct and navigate complex issues so Americans can make informed choices. Second, we need a president who can…

Leon Hale’s weekly column this morning reached back to before my birth…But, he touched a chord even so. The final lines though really rang true… I guess what got me going on television is that…

The Center for Responsive Politics calculates that, by Election Day, $2.4 billion will have been spent on presidential campaigns in the two-year election cycle that began in January 2007, and an additional $2.9 billion will…

Currently (on Tue 5:53AM CDT from Pearland Regional Airport) Clear Temp: 41° Dewpoint: 34° Wind: Calm MPH I woke up this morning at about 3:45 smelling something burning. Sherry sat up at about the same time…

Just call me Paul the Professor Colbert, via Crooks and Liars: I for one appreciate the McCain campaign treating us like children. McCain will bring us back to a simpler time. A time when you…

While my friends on the Blue Ridge are climbing out of bed this morning and firing up their stoves to beat back the cold we finaly greeted some nice fall weather. The temperature this morning…

For me the most moving moment came when the family in front of me, comprising probably 4 generations of voters (including an 18 year old girl voting for her first time and a 90-something hunched-over…

Put that fruit juice down and grab a Coke. Haven’t you heard? High-fructose corn syrup — the ubiquitous sweetener found in everything from soft drinks to ketchup — isn’t bad for you at all. It’s…

This I can believe… Check out the comments from the Congresswoman from Minnesota at about 2:40…Are we back to McCarthyism already? When I heard her on Cris Matthews’ podcast I was amazed by her comments…

Only in Houston could you hear a 66° temperature referred to as a “chilly autumn morning”. All summer I’ve been amazed by the weather prognosticators descriptive adjectives. The mid-nineties and ozone warnings does not a…

What happens when credit markets seize up? We are beginning to see the result now: Businesses can’t expand or don’t open, houses aren’t bought or sold, and economic growth slows to a crawl. In minority…

Poverty (also called penury) is deprivation of common necessities that determine the quality of life, including food, clothing, shelter and safe drinking water, and may also include the deprivation of opportunities to learn, to obtain…

This link is as much for me as it is for you few folks who read these daily musings. Farmer in Chief By MICHAEL POLLAN Dear Mr. President-Elect, It may surprise you to learn that…

Paul Krugman, a professor at Princeton University and an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday. “It’s been an extremely weird day, but weird…

Sitting here before sunup with the french doors open in the kitchen…Bird calls and air cool enough to keep the AC from kicking on (at least for an hour or so) wafting through with the…

I heard this on my NPR podcast…I hope you like it…

Widely regarded as America’s greatest living songwriter, Bob Dylan has written and recorded some of the most influential and acclaimed music of the past century. With countless studio albums, compilations and live discs to his…

For the first time in the back half of the year it really does feel like autumn this morning…We are even feeling like the mountains I long for… Alvin, TX 55.0 °F / 12.8 °C…

Palin, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, launched the attack Saturday and repeated it twice Sunday, signaling a new strategy by John McCain’s presidential campaign to go after Obama’s character. “The comments are about an association that…

Every time Joe Biden made mention of the last eight years, Sarah Palin would chastise him for looking to the past not the future. Look who’s digging deep now. SEDONA, Ariz., Oct. 4 — GOP…

Makes sense to me…

Unbelievable. Sarah Palin finished her closing remarks by quoting Ronald Reagan: It was Ronald Reagan who said that freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. We don’t pass it to our children in…

If you haven’t discovered TED Talks yet, you should. Really smart, really passionate people giving really passionate talks about subjects they know and love to people who really listen…