Most of the leaves have fallen from the cedar elms in the front yard. I can now see how much the mistletoe has spread since last year. We have three trees along the street and there are heavy accumulations in the two on each side. The big tree in […]
Tricia and I went last night to a Winter Solsticelebration. There was music and poetry, Buddhist chanting, and an “Egyptian fire dance,” among other things. We participated in a ceremony of extinguishing and bringing back the light.
The winter solstice (which is really December 22 this year) is the shortest day of the […]
While I was out shopping at the mall, I got to counting how many of the stores there I remembered from my childhood. Not very many.
The department stores in Ft Worth were Leonards, Striplings and Monnigs. None of those exist anymore. Leonards was the biggest, with it’s own private subway. […]
Nowadays when children visit us, we entertain them with videos. They usually watch their favorites over and over, probably the same ones that the kids watch at your house.
When I was a kid we watched TV instead of videos. Lately I have realized that at least in those days children’s TV […]
A friend of mine who comments on this blog once in a while forwarded to me an email he received today. It was from a concern called InternetSeer which apparently had gleaned my friends’ email address from the comment logs:
On Mon Dec 15, 2003 at 10:08:30 PM EST we were unable to […]
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