Three months lie between us and the election in November. The airwaves will likely be long on attack ads and self-righteous politicians boasting about how much more family oriented or moral or conservative or gun friendly they are than their opponents. The PAC attack ads will saturate the television and…
Leave a CommentMonth: July 2016
Back when I started this blog in November 2009, I wrote all my entries in the form of a letter. Over time, I developed a number of personalities as recipients and tailored the voice of the letters to those people. I can’t remember exactly when or why this ended. My…
Leave a CommentNick and I are going for a trip down the Missouri River from the tiny town of Rulo, Nebraska, to Kaw Point, a park where the Kansas River drains into the Missouri. He has been talking about it all summer. We have the canoe. I’ve bought a new dry bag…
Leave a CommentWho doesn’t want to win the lottery? I know I do. Just about every other time I buy a can of tobacco, I buy a couple of tickets. Stuffed into my wallet, those tickets with or without the magic numbers sit alone and lonely. Once in a while, when I…
2 CommentsThe backyard erupted after the last rain. For a solid month, the sun shone. Days reached a hundred. The whole world began to smell like dry grass. At first, what seemed like endless days of sun irritated me. I’m really something of a pluviophile and revel in the gray dimness…
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