Month: April 2017

Dad here; a few years ago, a "friend" used to spend his lunch hour fishing at a secluded spot by the Arkansas River. He came back telling me of a…

Dad here; I'm not a bit interested in sharing the gory intricacies of yesterday's tragedy. Two scriptures in the Bible sometimes seem to not square with each other: Ecclesiastes 9:11…

There are three types of people on this planet: people who don't like dogs, people who like the "idea" of dogs, then there are dog people. The second category seems…

It's an unseasonably cool spring morning at the Casa, even the Great Khan of the Hummingbirds has deigned it too chilly to send scouts south to determine the status of…

John Steinbeck called it "vacilando", the Australians go "walkabout", now I find out that 18th century French had an urban version of the same called a "flanuer". Originally the term…

Dad was raised in church, but has always cautioned me to keep religion out of my posts. A: there are other places for that, and B: more times than not,…