I’m a Progessive. Bea is a Republican. She visits this blog for reasons unknown. Bea has posted a series of nasty comments about an earlier post, Impeachment and Mr. Rogers. And for lack of factual content in her comments, I consigned them to Trash. Bea was not pleased. Bea, every word I wrote in “Impeachment […]
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Months ago I wrote about three of the four museums we toured this summer in D.C. I have fought writer’s block in my efforts to create something honest and interesting about the fairly new addition to The Smithsonians on Native Americans. This morning I awakened from what the first Americans would describe as a “vision”, […]
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I wrote this two years ago and somehow never posted it. Better late than never? We are in Pensacola, camped within a mile or two of where we interred a bit of an old friend’s cremains. Yesterday would have been his 74th birthday. Kat, the Magic Bugger, and I are two days into our scheduled […]
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One of the best and worst aspects of retirement is that one has the time to spend a day or a week watching televised coverage of the Congressional Impeachment Inquiry. Kat and I have seen at least 95% of the hearings of the Intelligence and Judiciary to date (Dec 6, 2019). From everything that we […]
Read MoreThis was the best attended of all the DC museums we visited, if you’re speaking of the audience being honored at that museum. There were smiles everywhere and I do hope these kids leave feeling better about their chance of success in today’s world. I am an old white guy and I will say this: […]
Read MoreBack in June Kat ordered a replacement oven/range for Kat’s Cradle’s original. Its grates were badly corroded, and the burners had grown new fire-spouting orifices here and there. Plus the oven door is attached now by only one screw — the other recently lost its purchase. The time had come to replace it. On Labor […]
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A cool front blew through town yesterday bringing rain, winds, and an overnight low of 62 degrees. By Sunday the rain was over and conditions were perfect to take a short ride to visit Duke Gardens. It was partly cloudy but Kat took some magnificent pictures. Most of them were in the Asian Garden section […]
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