New Photo Gallery
Feb 14
So I have finally gotten around to integrating Gallery2 into my blog. It’s a cool little open source application for sharing photos. This new tool gives me a lot of options to share my photographs and such with family and friends. To get to the photo album you can do one of the following: 1. Click the photos tab on the top navigation menu. 2. Click on any photo I have included in a...
The Best Friend a Girl Ever Had
Dec 21
It was the summer of 1997 when he came into my life, the best friend a girl ever had. There were other little golden retriever bundles of joy at the breeder but the second he tumbled in my direction, tripping over his over-sized feet and rolled over on his back, I was captured. The breeder warned me that he had a bent tail from falling out of the birth canal and as a result he was the runt of...
Daddy’s Girl
Dec 20
Over the Thanksgiving holiday I went “home”. I put this in quotations, since like many of you out there, my parents are divorced and this sense of “home” has never been exactly the same. You see, I grew up in Florida and my family lives in Kentucky, which for those of you who haven’t been there is effectively another planet. It’s beautiful but definitely...
Don’t Judge Me
Dec 11
Poetry is cathartic. As such, much of the poetry I’ve written over the years relates to specific times and incidents that either made me happy, hurt my feelings, or generally sparked my interest in some way. I wrote the following poem back in the ’90’s when a friend of mine had hurt me terribly by judging a personal family issue I was having without knowing all of the facts....
Yusef Komunyakaa
Dec 06
A native of Bogalusa Louisiana, Yusef Komunyakaa won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1994 for his collection entitled Neon Vernacular. You can take a look at a preview of Neon Vernacular by clicking here. His poetry is like written literary jazz with a razor’s edge. I guess for some reason I feel closer to him through the bricks his father laboured over and his southern stylings. You...
Only in Kentucky
Nov 30
Now listen to a story about a town named Rabbit Hash. Nestled in a sleepy corner of Boone County Kentucky is the only place in America where the town mayor is a Border Collie named Lucy Lou. You see, back in 1998 the fine residents of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky didn’t take too kindly to the fellas running for the office of mayor in their corner of the bluegrass. As a joke, a local yokel...
The National Debt: I.O.U.S.A
Nov 07
Recently a friend of mine shared this 30 minute video from the new documentary out called I.O.U.S.A. I currently can’t speak to the quality of the whole feature film but I can say that the 30 minute excerpt that I viewed was not only interesting but a clearly crafted wake up call to America. This film really keeps the partisan posturing on the sidelines and discusses what I feel is the...
