Here’s two sets of a dozen pictures each. For maximum enjoyment, view each slideshow in fullscreen mode. (A button will appear in the lower right…
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Here’s two sets of a dozen pictures each. For maximum enjoyment, view each slideshow in fullscreen mode. (A button will appear in the lower right…
It’s been cold in New Orleans lately. The last two nights we’ve had freeze warnings. I don’t think it actually froze, though. Fortunately the new…
In case you missed it, a photo by yours truly featuring the infamous Xy is gracing an article on Lifehacker right now.
I remember when I first encountered the web in 1995. My immediate response was, “I wanna upload my life.” That fundamental motivation continues to drive…
Dear Persephone, You sure are getting big. I know this because you tell me about it. Constantly. “I’m big. I’m big. I’m so big. I’m…
Saturday morning I was out early conducting a short tour of the Lafitte Corridor. I was skeptical about how many people would be up for…
I thought about doing a photo series titled “Butts of St. Louis,” but I worried that the good citizens of that city might find it…
Over the last few weeks I’ve been fiddling with constructing my family tree on ancestry.com. (Thanks to my old high school friend Georgie for getting…
We went looking for this grave after seeing a request on Find a Grave. After some help from “Big Bad John” at the cemetery office,…
I recently noticed a small backyard shrine in my neighborhood. I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it at first. I thought maybe it…
On Friday, with a little time to kill, my daughter and I stopped by one of the many cemeteries clustered in our neighborhood. I’d been…
All of a sudden I’m getting a surge of traffic to this old photo of my birthday cake from 1984. I trace the hits back…
I know I mentioned that some mysterious person gave me a couple hundred bucks after my last bike got stolen, but I don’t think I…
Here at the University today we are celebrating the opening of the College of Pharmacy’s new Qatar Pavilion. This is a big deal. In addition…
It started one Sunday in early September. Xy and Persephone were out on a shopping trip, and I had just left on a bike ride…
Here’s something I wrote on March 18, 2008, but never published for some strange reason. Two and a half years later, these words still ring…
Dear Persephone, Somewhere in the last month your temper has taken a turn for the worse. Don’t get me wrong, you are still sweet and…
I don’t really know Gina very well. She’s a friend of a friend, the intermediary being the irascible PJ Christie. Gina and PJ played together…