windyaugust As Drumpf rolls on— as I watch with fascinated disgust— I remember a day in 2009 in Ireland, on a pub-to-pub outing with good friends in County Clare. We ended the day at a mausoleum of a place, an enormous golf resort called… Boondeg. While my friends talked business with their associates, I wandered the …
Bombing the second holiest site in Islam during Ramadan is not the act of an Islamic state. If a madman called himself “the president of the United States” would we refer to him that way? No. We would refer to him as a madman. “The Islamic State?” Seriously?
Round hay bales at Hy Court
Pondering all that was and was not in Texas, and the effect of my leaving. I miss the moon, but I am glad to be on my way. First thing in the suitcase is always the indispensable Michelin Plan de Paris, bestowing upon its user superpowers of navigation.
I feel well and truly out from behind The Longhorn Curtain. Storms killed the flowers that were just beginning to lift their heads, and no doubt spiders, scorpions, and wasps will recolonize the cabin. No longer my concern! But I do miss the wild arugula I planted under the oak, that thrived in flood and …
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[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_blurb admin_label=”Blurb” url_new_window=”off” use_icon=”off” icon_color=”#e7d58c” use_circle=”off” circle_color=”#e7d58c” use_circle_border=”off” circle_border_color=”#e7d58c” icon_placement=”top” animation=”top” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_icon_font_size=”off” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Here’s a thought for tea partyers wondering how they might have let the foxes into the henhouse: No representation without taxation! The less you pay, proportional to your income, the less your needs and wants …