Posts from the ‘Just a slice of heaven’ Category
I don’t know quite why I feel the need to apologize when I haven’t posted in a while. It’s kind of a silly impulse, given that blogging is strictly optional to my life and has to be even more optional to my loyal reader(s). But I felt kind of bad when I realized that it […]
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Originally posted in 2008, this ode to the yellow seemed worth a re-run. Driving home from church, I kept noticing the banks of wild sunflowers at each new rise in the road. They surprise me every year: It’s too late for bunches and bunches of bright yellow sunflowers to appear in every gully, massing out […]
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I’m cat-sitting a friend whose place is really remote. Around here, what that means is that paved roads are a distant dream and gravel roads are deemed an affectation. And I’ve almost gotten used to the bouncy ride, and used to the part of it that goes through a cornfield, but I’m still not used […]
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This is Greg’s first trip back home since he moved out to the new job in Phoenix. I was glad to be able to show off all the Missouri highlights in good weather, because it’s been oppressively hot (just like Phoenix, of course) and oppressively muggy (just like Missouri). But when we finished a little […]
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A little Thursday round-up, since none of these quite merits a post all its own: Global warming setback: polar bears might not be dying: — The scientist who made the polar bear the unofficial poster child from manmade global warming is on leave and being investigated for “scientific misconduct,’in part over the integrity of those findings. […]
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So I was working along on my computer this afternoon when the electricity suddenly just twinked off. How odd. I sat there for quite a few seconds just looking at the black screen. I wasn’t worried that the computer was broken, because I noticed without noticing that things were … different. They were … … quiet. […]
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As I wrote back HERE, I consider that your material goods can be divided into Treasure, Stuff and Junk, with things sometimes changing from one category to another. With the big move coming up, though, it’s almost as if 85% of all my worldly goods got moved into the Junk category. But apparently, anyone can […]
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I feel like a doof. When we moved from Southern California to the Midwest, someone there kindly let us know that winter makes a couple serious attempts to kill you every year. So shouldn’t I have figured out on my own that Arizona would do the same thing during the summer? I think I can […]
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Well, I’ve got a little news: We’re moving to Phoenix! In the strange world of blogs, it hardly matters. I keep posting along and I might as well be on the moon for all the difference it makes. But if I had less to say about fall colors and more to say about … I […]
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Had some friends who weren’t sure, so I’ll assure anyone out there who’s concerned: Our part of Missouri didn’t get blown away in Sunday’s tornados. Joplin is hours away from us, and — as it so happened — Greg and I were in Connecticut, so the wind would’ve had to REALLY be something for us […]
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