Starry Night
I am in love with the night sky. Saturday (actually early sunday) I was driving along a rural highway and noticed how exceptionally potent the stars were. Even the faint band of the milky way was visible streaking across the sky, a sight that is generally reserved for the cold, humidity...
Read MoreCloser to God
Going to church makes me feel religious, and like I’m doing the ‘right thing’, but it doesn’t necessarily make me feel truly closer to God. The sermon gives me guidance, which I need, but otherwise, being in a large man-made structure, singing someone else’s songs, and...
Read MoreThat Hansel is so Hot Right Now
Today is the first day of the year that I would describe as miserable, in terms of the weather. It’s one of those days where it feels like a hot steamy batch of air from Louisiana has somehow become lost and ended up out here and now it just waiting around getting stale and sucking the life...
Read MoreSupermercado Guerrero
Every once in awhile I pass the Supermercado Guerrero in Carthage and always think that it looks like a store i would like. I brought it up in a conversation with my co-worker / friend Jason and not to my surprise he had some information about it. He had heard that they make fresh tamlales so we...
Read MoreMissouri is Pro-Floating
I have recently discovered something about my state that I like a lot. It appears I have taken the access to river ways for granted. Apparently residents of other states, such as Kansas, who enjoy floating do not have the same opportunities as we do in the Show-Me State. Generally speaking I think...
Read MoreFull Fridge (For Me at Least)
Yesterday I read this months cover story in Natl Geographic about the looming food shortage. I wasn’t aware there was a food shortage because in my part of the world a shortage or problem merely translates into higher prices that i may or may not even notice. When I want food I trade...
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