I heard Megan Hickey on Americana Roots Review a couple of weeks ago. I liked her sound so much I bought the CD – Wire Waltz, her band is called The Last Town Chorus. John…

For all of us Newbie WordPress bloggers…Keyboard Shortcuts Via Lifehacker TipMonkies » Blog Archive » WP: KeyBoard Shortcuts These are shortcuts you can use in the wordpress post editor. Bold: Alt SHIFT b Italics: Alt…

Warning: Bush Bashing Political Rant Follows The New York Times has a great question in the first paragraph of this editorial… FEMA Runs for Cover – New York Times How many times can the federal…

This image caught my eye yesterday so I dropped it here. What it reminded me of was a Mandelbrot Fractal like the ones I used to spend hours generating and exploring back a decade ago…

From Coffee Muses This week’s challenge: ‘Vacation’. Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to a static page that will always show your challenge image, and not…

The number for today is 27…Almost there. There is a magical time of night that seems to call me on a regular basis…It’s 3:33am. I can not recall how many time I have rolled over…

I got involved in a WordPress Upgrade this morning along with trying to find some answers to some questions Fred had with his migration to WordPress over the weekend. I’ll try to post something this…

I see my Congressman is still stirring the pot… When U.S. Rep. Ron Paul recently gave the keynote address at a ceremony presenting overdue medals to 24 veterans, he talked about patriotism, the country’s debt…

We carry with us these footprints of vanished places: apartments we moved out of years ago, dry cleaners that went out of business, restaurants that stopped serving, neighborhoods where only the street names remain the…

Today will be radiation treatment #23. That means just 13 more to go… The weather station on the wall has the outside temperature at 73°. That would be very comfortable for this time of year…

I have spent the morning doing some WordPress studying so my muse hasn’t really kicked in. In the process of looking for something online to help Fred First with his integration into WP I stumbled…

I hope some of you out there were able to catch Bill Moyers Journal last night. It was one of the strongest cases I have seen made to date in favor of impeaching both the…

This week’s challenge: ‘Barren’ Taken in January 2005 on my last trip to Vegas… PHOTO FRIDAY Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to a static page…

Well, I meandered thru my email, read the headlines and opinions of the paid opinion makers, and finished my morning muse cup of coffee. The news was full of the latest on Bush, the Congress,…

Warning…Political Rant Coming Ok, if this trend continues, we are going to have to suspect divine intervention in the AG firings. How else can we explain the “fact” that no one had any input on…

Lady Bird Johnson dies at 94 | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle Lady Bird Johnson, a former first lady, a Texas legend, a woman who used the humble wildflower to teach an entire nation to treasure…

Today is the end of my fourth week of radiation treatment. After today I will have three more weeks to go. The treatments have become a daily routine…The people at the treatment center are really…

I have been lax lately in being the doting grandpa….Here are a couple of shots of the grandson . Father and son eating ribs on the fourth… Mother and son at rest…

One year ago this week we were sitting on the side of a mountain in northwestern North Carolina. We aren’t the first Texans to have discovered and fallen in love with the Blue Ridge Mountains…

Via The Ethicurean this morning I followed a link to the following… In his Meat Manifesto, Fearnley-Whittingstall corners the reader: “Are you,” he demands, “among the millions of consumers putting pressure on farmers to produce…

They can’t spin it, they can’t excuse it, they can’t hide it. It’s a payoff for taking the fall for the big guys. And Bush’s very history spells it out. In the six years that…

7/7/07 – trip sevens Our neighbor is using this as an auspicious date for a wedding. I just think the groom was looking for an easy anniversary mnemonic. He sure wont have much excuse for…

It was a little strange this morning, waking up to the sounds of silence. No thunder, no pounding rain, not even the subliminal sound of water dripping from the eaves, seems very weird. I am…

The rain falling again this morning almost lulled me back to sleep after our wet and rainy 4th. I finally dragged myself out of bed…But, now that I am through with the first (pre-commute) cup…

Keith Olbermann has another of his special commentaries out. It’s too bad neither President Bush nor Vice-President Cheney have an iota of understanding about what it is they have done that sets so many Patriotic…

People are going to be having fun with the convoluted logic of this step by President Bush right up until he is facing judgment himself. In commuting Lewis “Scooter” Libby Jr.’s 30-month prison sentence on…

The external world, so fascinating, so infinite in its variety, has us firmly in hand and thoroughly mesmerized. Lasting happiness is almost ours – over there, just ahead of us, right around the next corner….

Can you imagine what must have been going on behind the scenes on this day all those years ago in Philadelphia? The discussions, the arguments, the compromises all to commit…treason. Each and every signer of…

Just when you thought they couldn’t get any more blatant at thumbing their noses at the law…WASHINGTON — President Bush commuted the sentence of former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby today, sparing him…

I rolled out of bed this morning to the sound of thunder and pouring rain. That seems to be the pattern around here the past week or so. What is unusual about that is thunderstorms,…

This caught my eye this morning in the Houston Chronicle… They’re scattered across Houston’s neighborhoods like pebbles flung from someone’s hand. Now, almost two years into their Houston experience, this displaced population roughly the size…

This nation is so angry about Iraq that we sometimes forget what would be obvious if it was a four-alarm blaze in a nearby city. Some fires do have to burn, but leaving the scene…

As I was reading my email and feeds I hit a link from Earth & Sky Blogs that led to the following video. “See” how the world is changing. Visual imagery can tell stories and…

Gray Day on Galveston Bay

I generally don’t just copy someone else’s full post. This one twigged on a number of levels so I’ll let Jim Hightower say it himself. Jim Hightower | WHY NOT “DRINK LOCAL?” Friday, June 29,…

This mornings Washington Post has some interesting reading. Even David Broder is on Chaney’s case this morning. If you haven’t checked out the Post’s series on the essential Dick Chaney you really should…Angler: The Cheney…

Well after a couple of weeks of playing target practice with a ray gun the sore throat they were promising has arrived. Looks like this most expensive of diets has now kicked into it’s starting…

A great read on the “Buy Local” meme. Heavy on the economics… The Ethicurean: Chew the right thing. » Blog Archive » Guest post: Michael Shuman defends the “buy local” premise Michael Shuman, author of…

As I was perusing through the morning emails the daily forecast started me thinking. Back on our first summer trip to the mountains in August of 2003 the folk down in town of Valle Crucis…

Today will be the 9th radiation treatment of 35. You could say we are about a quarter of the way through. The strange thing about these treatments is you never know from one day to…

Pushing the Envelope on Presidential Power | Cheney | washingtonpost.com Shortly after the first accused terrorists reached the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Jan. 11, 2002, a delegation from CIA headquarters arrived…

All last week the weather prognosticators were promising us a beautiful, dry and sunny weekend to make up for the unending rain of last weekend…They blew it. The high pressure dome they were expecting to…

One of the blogs I like that comes from the Appalachian Mountains is: Appalachian Treks Here’s another bit of advice I read somewhere that changed the way I take pictures: Find a different perspective. The…

Garrison tells us that… Tonight is Midsummer Night’s Eve, also called St. John’s Eve. St. John is the patron saint of beekeepers. It’s a time when the hives are full of honey. The full moon…

“This is a little bit of a nonissue,” Perino said at a briefing dominated by the issue. Cheney is not subject to the executive order, she said, “because the president gets to decide whether or…

The article was about the resignation of another Assistant to Gonzales resigning. But the final paragraph reached out and grabbed me… On the same day that letter was written, however, Mercer instructed a GOP staff…

What it is I dream of…

My short answer…If you have heard they have cancer, don’t ask “How are you?” Talk about a loaded question with no real answers at the beginning of treatment. “How you feeling?” would be safer…just. “Hi!”…

Colin Fletcher (photograph, John Sexton/Appalachian Long Distance Hikers Association) For most of us who care about ecology and the environment, there was some personal experience that brought us there. For me, it was wilderness hiking,…