Jesus, the Guantanamo Years Simone Monday, July 30, 2007 What if Jesus showed up today, a bearded Middle-Easterner willing to die as a religious martyr, hav… Read more
Enough To Keep You Up Nights Simone Friday, July 20, 2007 The Democratic senators held an all-night debate on the Iraq war this past Tuesday. The Republicans… Read more
Affirmations Simone Friday, July 20, 2007 I am ready to let a new plant come into my life. I embrace the diversity of my mismatched place se… Read more
Push Reel Mower Superiority Rant Simone Thursday, July 19, 2007 An Eco-Rant for the Clean Air Crowd All you gas fume-spewing turbo freaks You make me sick You make… Read more
The Rainy Season Simone Thursday, July 19, 2007 It was the rainy season. Our outside activities ceased and we were driven indoors. We could do lit… Read more
Breaking Free on the Fourth Simone Thursday, July 19, 2007 It was July 4th. In the evening. During that vague, undefined hour after the cookout but before the… Read more
Heart of Gold WOW. I think I saw the best concert of my life last night, and I'm still all a-tingle. Neil, man. Neil Young. He pla… Keep reading
Gleesome Gladness Ninety-seven years ago today was the first day of the first "official" Kansas State Fair, held on September… Keep reading
Pomp And Circumstance The Quad at the University of Missouri at Columbia Today I read about a 98-year old woman who just got her Master's… Keep reading
Winter Storm All Up In Here It was only a matter of time before we had to pay the winter gods for all the unseasonable warmth we had over Christmas… Keep reading
Happy Equinoctial Point Well we made it to Spring. The vernal equinox gives me a chance to stop and contemplate things like math and astrophys… Keep reading
Jazz and Classical fight like mad dogs at Helzberg Hall This past Saturday was my first concert at Helzberg Hall in the Kauffman Center. I discovered there are three things I… Keep reading