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Category: Everyday Stories

  • New Echota

    Light box enlargement Emerson writing of the American Indian Removal of 1838 said, it was a “crime that really deprives us as well as the Cherokees of a country; for how could we call the conspiracy that should crush these poor Indians our Government, or the land that was cursed by their parting and dying…

  • Banana popsicle

    Just finished eating a banana popsicle in honor of the one banana popsicle I had as a child. It wasn’t the same and I don’t think the cause is solely the intervening years and faulty memory. When I was little and the ice cream man came around in Richland, I’d a friend who loved banana…

  • We have a new upstairs neighbor (still typing without the apostrophe as WordPress will not let me use it now)

    Our last upstairs neighbors were two women who moved in and then never paid rent. The apartment just above us has a history of people moving in who cease at some point to pay rent and then skip out. These women never paid rent again at all. Earlier this week I heard someone upstairs at…

  • Yes, you can get attached to goldfish

    For some reason this week our fish went sceptic. I don’t know why. The water in the tank is good. PH is good. Everything is good. This happened a couple of months ago but that time the water proved to be suddenly way too acidic, the water coming from our tap the culprit. We got…

  • The Rub

    I’ll remark on this. Bush doing a sideswipe attempt at massaging German Chancellor Andrea Merkel’s shoulders. Mediagirl points to Majikthise and she points to others. The first pic I saw of George’s affront was Merkel raising her arms and throwing his hands off in indignation. Saw that “I’m looking elsewhere, not really doing anything here,…

  • Hot here, there, everywhere, busted AC and myriad failures

    Hot here, there, everywhere – need I say more. But I will. We live in an urban apt with no natural ventilation because the windows are all nailed shut or sealed shut with paint. Our couple of window air units aren’t the best in the world, the one in the bedroom cooled about 14 inches…

  • The small ways in which art imitates life – Sightseeing “Unending Wonders”

    The small ways in which art imitates life – Sightseeing “Unending Wonders”

    Fireworks Emporium, Tennessee Fireworks Emporium Revisited, Tennessee – Google Maps Redux The thrill and explosive, thunderous pizazz of colorful fireworks, which we Americans so closely associate with the clarion call of freedom and the 4th of July, but instead of a celebration of peace were probably more intended to recall and celebrate the “rockets red…

  • I'm curious too, would you eat lab-grown meat? Would I?

    Would you eat lab-grown meat that’s been walked around the block with electric shocks for exercise? There’s an article today on this at Alternet. Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat?. People are working on growing your meat course in the lab, saying it’s safer, more humane and non-polluting. Others wonder what the unintended consequences might be…

  • New York Times picks up the story on Jill Greenberg and Thomas Hawk

    Quoting (sometimes just a hair loosely) from Jill Greenberg’s ipodcast with American Photo back in April, looking at the same time of a picture of a crying child titled “Torture” that’s on the page offering the ipodcast…

  • What we did

    First off we got lost on the way to the town south of Atlanta where my elder younger brother lives. So we drove around back highways for a while and I wondered, as I always do when we’re on our way down to visit them, at all the little churches holding ground at the interesections…

  • Bob Dylan "With God on Our Side" 1964

    This one always has me near tears. My 4th of July post. And yes, this year we’re going to watch fireworks with family. Because kids love fireworks.

  • City wildlife

    City wildlife

    Aren’t they all gorgeous? Doesn’t H.o.p. look deceptively sweet? Not that he isn’t, he’s sweet as can be. He’s also a major imp and T. Wrecks.