Part 7b in a 16-part stately series pictorially documenting the Sojourn. Yesterday: South Dakota (part one) Today, we finish up South Dakota, with the Badlands through Mitchell… The Badlands are a bit like a lunar landscape: Or perhaps like Mars:…
The Shorter Story
Yesterday, I completed* the first short story that I’ve written in years – possibly more than five years. Entitled Name Game, it still needs some editing before too many other people read it (hence the asterisk), but I think it…
Duck and Cover #1131
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Get Your Bubble On
Consider this a brief follow-up to last week’s examination of existing home sales figures… Good news! (Again.) New home sales are soaring, exceeding expectations, and signaling that despite people not having jobs, money, or much credit, everyone’s buying a home.…
The Sojourn in Pictures: South Dakota (part one)
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
Read Duck and Cover at the Blue Pyramid.
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…