prairie point

Remember when Bush campaigned as a “uniter, not a divider?” That seems really ironic when you look at how badly he has performed in uniting the international community behind his agenda. Check this article and also this one. I think that the damage Mr. Bush is doing with our relationship with the […]

I’ve tried journaling twice before. The first time was in college but my attention span was too short then to stick with anything.
Then years later a friend gave me a book called The Artists Way, which prescribed a regimen of writing in the early morning. For three or four years I did that diligently, […]

The weather was great this weekend. I mowed the lawn for the first time this season and pulled weeds.
I enlarged one of the flower beds a little to give us some planting space in the sun. We have a large yard but a lot of trees too, so we don’t have many sunny spots […]

Last week I downloaded the Mozilla browser and started using it, after reading a recommendation in Off the Kuff. I like it a lot. Besides an option to suppress pop-up ads it has a feature called tabs that allows you to open multiple sites in one window.

We drove past Prairie Point Cemetery yesterday afternoon. Four generations of my mother’s family and two generations of my father’s family are all buried there. My Mom picked out a plot for her and Dad where you could stand and see the site of the farmhouse where she was born and grew up. She said […]