I’d heard there was a marsh fire out east, but we didn’t smell anything until Monday morning. By the time I left for work, I…
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Month: August 2011
Six years ago today I woke up in a hotel room in northern Mississippi with Xy and three cats. We turned on the television and…
So Friday morning as I was walking to the barbershop, I was thinking about Hurricane Irene. It may sound callous, but my thoughts were something…
During the actual program of the Rising Tide conference (9AM – 6:30PM Central) you can watch live via this player. Wish you were here with…
Don’t forget, Rising Tide 6 is tomorrow. If you can’t make it to New Orleans you can watch the live webcast. Here’s a mix to…
I’ll take this article with a grain of salt, but I did find the parenthetical explanation of the racial politics of capitalization helpful. Readers frequently…
Pistolette is quitting coffee for a couple weeks, so I thought I’d revisit the topic myself. I noted back in March that I’d started my…
Over the past year or two I’ve become increasingly interested in the idea of contemplative pedagogy. This is the notion that we can foster a…
A couple months ago I expounded on the difficulties of glass recycling. A friend on Facebook suggested selling bottles on Etsy or eBay as craft…
I was on WWL-TV this morning with Alli deJong, talking up Rising Tide 6. Don’t forget to register now.
Dear Persephone, You are three and a half years old today. Last year, on your half-birthday, I cajoled you into giving away two of your…
Today was Persephone’s first day of school ever. She’s going to a small Catholic school on the West Bank of Jefferson Parish. I never thought…
Back when I lived in Bloomington, Indiana, I availed myself of counseling services at the Center for Human Growth twice. The first time was when…
My main way of getting to work over the past decade has been on a bicycle; much of my ride has been on the Jeff Davis bike path. It’s so much less stressful to me than driving a car, and I am so glad I don’t have to start my day in an automobile. Nevertheless, I do encounter obstacles and hazards from time to time. I try not to get annoyed. But as I’ve noted previously, it’s “interesting how much annoyance seems to cluster around transportation. Getting from Point A to Point B is fraught with stress-inducing potential.”
As I often ride with a camera, it’s become an almost involuntary reflex to document problems on the bike path as I run into them. And so, just as I recently realized that I now have a little archive of back to school photos, I also realized I have an archive of bike-path problems. In fact, the fifth photo I posted to Flickr was of a mattress on the path, way back in 2004.
So I’d like to present this set of…
Probably my favorite thing about having a media credential for Tales of the Cocktail is breakfast. And of course lunch, but a good breakfast is…
It’s become a tradition to take a photo of Xy as she heads off to her first day of classes. I realized this morning that…
Twenty-five years ago — I came home from Sweden with blue hair, much to my parents’ shock and my sister’s delight. At least I think…
Sometimes it’s tough working with faculty. They have the summer off, and lots of them take extended vacations. Then they come back raving about what…