Plastic Farm AnimalsWhen I woke up this morning, I knew I wasn’t in Denton anymore because I couldn’t hear any barking dogs. We were in a room a short walk from the French Quarter. This was my first trip to New Orleans. I haven’t seen so many people hanging out in the streets since we left Nicaragua. […]
We picked Halloween as an exit date and left Denton, Texas this morning for North Carolina, via Houston, New Orleans, Florida and Georgia. We figured this would be a good way to avoid the uncomfortable ritual of handing out candy to children we didn’t know. On our way to the fantastically cozy (I mean they […]
I was wrong about there not being a way for kids in our neighborhood to walk to Lee Elementary. And I was wrong about having explored all interconnecting paths between neighborhoods. The other day I saw a woman and a young girl step into the mowed field I use to cross into the neighborhood north […]
The good news is that there has been a sharp drop in US deaths in Iraq. As of Tuesday, the Pentagon reported 28 U.S. military deaths in October. That’s an average of about 1.2 deaths a day. The toll on U.S troops hasn’t been this low since March 2006, when 31 soldiers died – an […]
Seventy-five-year-old Mona Shaw is destined to become immortalized as an American folk hero: After a week of getting jerked around by a cable service provider, Mona had enough, according to the Washington Post story Taking a Whack Against Comcast: The insulting idea that, as Shaw puts it, “they thought just because we’re old enough to […]