Our household has been diminished by one. He doesn’t look sick, does he? But this is the last picture ever taken of Milo. He was…
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Our household has been diminished by one. He doesn’t look sick, does he? But this is the last picture ever taken of Milo. He was…
Boss Lady’s out for the rest of the month, at an AP reading and then a conference. Olivia’s brother passed away, so she’s in Alabama.…
I’ve managed to stretch my first Father’s Day into a whole weekend. It started Friday night and with any luck I’ll still be celebrating Monday…
I was sorting through some old photos the other day, and I came across a set taken on October 16, 1999. As I looked at…
Title: Glasshouse Author: Charles Stross Published: 2006 There’s usually a point in most novels where I feel the hook, where I no longer feel the…
I guess I’m in a very small minority with this opinion, but I actually support our Louisiana state legislature’s efforts to give themselves a huge…
The recent news that Victory is open to selling the Lindy Boggs Medical Center site jogged a memory. I know rumor-mongering isn’t wise, but I…
Maybe one reason New Orleans seems to have so many problems is chemical. Specifically I’m thinking about lead. There’s a lot of lead in this…
When I first heard of Stuff White People Like I took a quick glance at it and was vaguely amused. Oh, ha ha, making fun…
When I first heard about flooding in Indiana last week, and saw some pictures of IU students frolicking in the high water in Bloomington, with…
Over the last few weeks, building on the brackets my father helped me install, I’ve put up approximately 64 linear feet of shelving in the…
I had no idea how many people to expect for today’s 4th Annual Hike of the Lafitte Corridor. Last year we had 16 or 17,…
As we hike the length of the abandoned rail line known as the Lafitte Corridor tomorrow, we’ll pass by the Lafitte public housing development. Or…
Once again Mr. Magic writes with news of life in my former hometown: I thought you might enjoy these pictures of the recent flooding in…
It’s astonishing to me to think our little girl has more than doubled in size — and her one, her only source of nutrition has…
As preparation for being a father, I backed off my involvement with a couple nonprofits. I resigned from the board of the Urban Conservancy and…
Thanks to the Magic Man for pointing out this story in the Bloomington paper about the closure of the local branch office of DialAmerica Marketing. I worked there for seven long years. Truly it is the end of an era. Like the guy in the story, DM allowed me to keep body and soul together working part-time while I pursued my crazy dreams. To the dozens of people who are now out of a job with no advance warning — I feel for you.
Q: What do you get when you combine Gcast, a cell phone, a Bluetooth headset, a bicycle and me?
I recently became aware that people who subscribed to get e-mail updates for this blog are no longer getting them. Something broke when we migrated…