Noteworthy entries.
As the mercury rose past 90 on this sunny Sunday, I biked over to see the Pagan Picnic in Tower Grove Park. I attend this event regularly, and it gets a bit bigger each year. There are many booths selling fair foods and drinks, and psychic readings, acupuncture, massage, crystals…
Last night, I was flying from St. Louis to Minneapolis to participate in the 2008 National Conference for Media Reform. I was flying in a small jet (the kind that holds about 60 passengers). As we approached the Minneapolis airport, we started going through storm clouds. Undeterred, the pilot started…
When we think of skies, we often think of blue sky with white clouds. As adults we often forget to appreciate the natural beauty available to us simply by looking up. There are many other types of skies, of course. For the past ten days, we've had lots of turbulent…
Barack Obama has, for all intents and purposes, clinched the Democratic nomination for the presidency. Hillary will jocky for position in before the upcoming convention. Much speculation has been thrown about as to whether or not she'll be a vice presidential nominee. I am dubious of that. Dubious that Obama…
I just found out why we English speakers use apostrophe-ess ( 's ) to indicate the Saxon Genitive Case. "Huh?" I can hear you gasp. I've been using it for 40 years to indicate the possessions of an object by a subject. It just always was this way, like mountains…