Posted in Uncategorized on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes things don’t go the way we propose they should, even when one has no particular plan in mind.
For instance, I am sitting here trying to make sense of my day while beside me sits a computer with two completed columns, one (the one I really intended to run today) about two-thirds done, and, well, [...]
Read Full Post »
The twin grandboys caught me reading a book recently — a feat that is not really all that difficult. I read quite a bit, and they are observant and clever rascals.
It was “The R Document,” by Irving Wallace, in which the United States is, as the book starts, two states’ legislatures’ votes away from adopting [...]
Read Full Post »
It was August 29, 2005. A terrific hurricane named Katrina had born down on the Crescent City, so-called because of its location in a crescent of the Mississippi River. The worst seemed to have passed. And then, from a region north of the city — opposite the direction from which the great storm had approached, [...]
Read Full Post »
