Very Nice Things
This is America, land of the theoretically free, home of the abundantly incompetent. The selfishness we've seen lately, has only lowered...
Day 100: The Time Has Come
"All good things must come to and end." We first read this phrase in the Geoffrey Chaucer poem, Troilus and Criseyde. Originally written...
Day 99: The Other Side
"The noblest art is that of making others happy." I don't know why, but certain quotes and lines stick with us longer than others. This...
Day 98: Higher & Higher
In 1967, soul singer Jackie Wilson released the song "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher," breathing life back in to a...
Day 97: Hero With No Fear
“Even now, at just three years old, it is obvious that Luke longs to fly. It is like seeing Anakin all over again. The mop of unruly...
Day 96: Our Time Down Here
"Don't you realize? The next time you see sky, it'll be over another town. The next time you take a test, it'll be in some other school....
Day 95: Basin Street Blues
Thelonious Monk once said "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." It's a funny thing, trying to experience the sights...
Day 94: Catch Me If You Can
"Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so...
Day 93: How the Grog Stole Christmas
Every Freak down on the street Liked Diversity a lot... But the Grog, Who lived behind a fence in Washington, Did NOT! The Grog hated...
Day 92: You'd Better Second Line
I feel like Ned Sublette probably did a good job of describing things. “A second line is in effect a civil rights demonstration....
