Part 7a in a 16-part stately series pictorially documenting the Sojourn. Day before yesterday: Nebraska I have decided to divide South Dakota into two parts since there’s so much to cover. Today will cover Wind Cave through Wall, while tomorrow…
Duck and Cover #1130
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The Sojourn in Pictures: Nebraska
Part 6 in a 16-part stately series pictorially documenting the Sojourn. Yesterday: Wyoming The Good Life! Having never been to Nebraska, I was in a rush to pick up my 47th state: Obligatory self-portrait with the good life: I had…
The Sojourn in Pictures: Wyoming
Part 5 in a 16-part stately series pictorially documenting the Sojourn. Yesterday: Colorado Forever West: Wyoming purports to be the first government in the world to grant women equal rights, as this statue Esther Hobart Morris, an early Wyoming suffragette…
The Sojourn in Pictures: Colorado
Part 4 in a 16-part stately series pictorially documenting the Sojourn. Yesterday: New Mexico Colorful (and dizzying) Colorado: An intense game of Pac-Man in the massive arcade in Manitou Springs: Also in Manitou Springs, Coke and Pepsi together again: I…
Housing Recovery: Really?
Today’s headlines have been overwhelmed with dancing in the streets. No, not the dancing in Libya, though that’s there too, but the dancing over the incredible housing recovery that now has cold, hard data to back it up. Now, I…
The Sojourn in Pictures: New Mexico
Part 3 in a 16-part stately series pictorially documenting the Sojourn. Yesterday: Arizona From a car in the dark with a migraine: In line at the beloved Frontier Restaurant: My parents’ backyard has become home to a small squirrel colony:…
Why “We” Fight: Palling Around with Death Panels Before We Move to Canada
Americans love hard-nosed binary conflict. Football has wholly eclipsed baseball as the nation’s pastime, replacing one contentious battle of grit and will with another more grueling, violent one. We were all raised on Disney movies that pit vile, monstrous, heartless…
The Sojourn in Pictures: Arizona
Today marks the beginning of what will be a roughly two-week series chronicling our recently ended odyssey in pictures. I’ve decided to break it up by state, since that divides the pictures into pretty neat little chunks (who wants to…
Minnesota Skinny Revisited (or: People Make Me Nervous)
In Philadelphia last week, Mesco and I had a brief discussion of how introverted I really am. Somehow Myers-Briggs personality types came up and she took issue with my deep-seated introversion as part of my general INFJ personality type. (I…