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Snow So its not enough to encounter the white stuff out on the peninsula, it has to follow us here. Here, to the domain of temperate weath...

The Pacific So my nephew, John Michael, is out visiting over the break. He's nineteen, going to school for computer technologies bac...

The Five From this week's Friday Five . 1. What was your biggest accomplishment this year? I'd say the work I did for the ...

Christmas Cue the "Charlie Brown Christmas" music. Kate and I had a pleasant and mildly exhausting Christmas. Pleasant from a...

I Remain Employed, Kinda It's been an interesting week past, and promises to be a hectic holiday week. One of the harder parts of free...

Five for Five A very sluggy net today, but here's the Friday Five : 1. List your five favorite beverages: Diet Coke ...

The Blog Goes Ever On and On Except when it doesn't. I haven't been ignoring this on purpose, but I've been busy with about fi...

Mideast Meets Midwest Two pieces of good news out of the Middle East today (or if you prefer, Southwest Asia). One of course is the Captur...

How Po-Mo Am I? Fighting a cold at the moment, so this will have to pass for real content. You are a Theory Slut.  The true elite of th...

Five For Friday Today's Friday Five . 1. Do you enjoy the cold weather and snow for the holidays? Only if I'm not going anyw...

A Little Nostalgia is a Dangerous Thing So this little quote showed up at Gamingreport.com , in regards to Ken Hite's review of the th...

I Visit Distant Relatives This one takes some explaining, at least as to explain how, the day before Thanksgiving, I was trespassing with ...

Report from Red America - About This War “I think this war in Iraq is a mistake.” I heard that increasingly during the week I recently ...

American Life - Unemployment Be careful what you wish for. In an article below, I listed five people I would like to hear from, I mentione...

Play: Plum Crazy Over The Moon Written by Steven Dietz, Adapted from P.G. Wodehouse's "The Small Bachelor", Directed by Dav...

American Flight So when I was growing up, train travel in America was in decline. Call them the Amtrack Years. There were still a few gr...

The Blog Goes Ever On and On OK, I'm back. I've spent the past week-and-change in Pittsburgh, visiting family for the holidays. It...

Blog Silent, Blog Deep Grubb Street is going quiet for the next week to ten days. Basic upkeep plus concentrating on finishing a short sto...

Five By Five By Friday A large one this time: 1. List five things you'd like to accomplish by the end of the year. • Find f...

Snow So the first winter I moved out here, I got a phone call from my mom back in Pittsburgh. "Hi, Honey." ...