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Cycling to the MARTA Station from south Cobb (and from there to the Dekalb...
I mentioned in a previous post that I've been exploring bicycle routes to various destinations from our house in south Cobb. This is a description of today's errands by bicycle.I had a bit of...
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Starting my fall garden
Yesterday I set up a raised bed for my fall garden, and put in two parsley plants, mostly to have something to look at before the seeds start sprouting. I assembled a 4x8 foot cedar raised bed from a...
View ArticleDuty, Blame, and Politics
I've spent quite a bit of time thinking about general philosophical and ethical topics lately. Politics, duty, civility, responsibility, and a few dozen other seemingly pointless mental noises have...
View ArticleSo just make sure everyone gets fed already!!! ...
I love food. I love growing food. I love cooking food. I love eating food. I love writing about food, and reading about it, and shopping for it. I even love adding the compostable scraps from my...
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Frankly, our cat would prefer that my entire garden consist of catnip
Needless to say he loves the stuff. The photo is him reminding me when I came in from working the garden that I forgot to bring his sprig of catnip. His other suggestion is that I start growing...
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Getting serious about submitting my writing
The body of this article is a post I made on the Writer's Digest community blog. I've been writing for a long time, but it's just been over the past month that I've decided to get serious about it....
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Tour of Sylvester Cemetery -- October 6,2012 11 AM
Historic Sylvester Cemetery is the final resting place of many of the pioneering families of Atlanta, and the resting place of the founders of East Atlanta Village in particular.I'll be conducting a...
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A 50,000 word novel in a month
Since I'm a person of many interests, cursed with a somewhat short attention span, deadlines are good for me. Publicly announcing my deadline on a particular project is even better, since it creates...
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An update on my novel
The month of November is going to be busy for me. As I stated in an earlier post, I'm participating in National Novel Writing Month, an event whereby people from around the globe make an attempt to...
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National Novel Writing Month begins
It's the afternoon of November 1st, and I'm on the verge of falling asleep as I type. Today is the first day of National Novel Writing Month, and I've hammered out my first 2,000 words (2037 to be...
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Connect the Comet -- Beltline to 'Bama
There is an effort underway to generate support for completing the unfinished and unfunded three miles of Silver Comet Trail which will connect the trail to the City of Atlanta, in particular to the...
View ArticleOld, Retired, and Back in School
I'm back in school. It's a weird feeling, particularly since I'm roughly three times the age of most of the students in both the classes I'm taking. I can state with some certainty that I'm the...
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3 versions of "Who Shot Sam" -- George Jones, Sonny Webb and the Cascades,...
"Who Shot Sam" is a Rockabilly classic. George Jones did the best known version, so I'll lead off with his rendition: Here's a nice version of the song by the Liverpool group, Sonny Webb and the...
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How to apply critical thinking techniques to opinion articles: Part 1
I'm a firm believer in 300 to 500 word articles, the length that the Associated Press has set in its new guidelines. Limiting the number of words in an article encourages clarity, and forces writers to...
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How to apply critical thinking techniques to opinion articles: Part 2
Part 1 of this series on how to apply critical thinking techniques to opinion articles defined critical thinking, and explained why it's an important skill to have when reading articles on political...
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Web search interest in Chris McDaniel versus Kris Kringle over time
I periodically do unlikely (perhaps even a bit mentally unbalanced) comparisons of web search interest in various topics, as calculated and graphed by the tools on Google Trends. Today I've been...
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Three versions of "Ballad of Thunder Road" - Mitchum,Jim and Jesse,Thornbirds
The first vinyl disc I ever bought was a 45 RPM single of Robert Mitchum singing "The Ballad of Thunder Road. The song was a promotional byproduct of the 1958 movie about bootleggers, starring...
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ATT -- telecommunication modeled on the intermittent windshield wiper
I pride myself on being patient, and I also realize that complex systems sometime break down. However, the reliability of ATT since the beginning of this year has been jarring. We've had extended...
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Web search interest in the World Cup versus Ann Coulter
I occasionally do comparisons of the public's interest in topics as expressed in google web searches. Ann Coulter has been creating a bit of controversy with attacks on soccer (called football in most...
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3 versions of "Red Rubber Ball" - Simon & Garfunkel, the Cyrkle, the Seekers
I'd always assumed that Red Rubber Ball was written solely by Paul Simon, but the wikipedia entry for the song credits Bruce Woodley of the Seekers as a co-writer. The song wasn't recorded by Simon...
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