Giving Thanks
Plenty for everyone Between the turkey, cranberry sauce, heaping mashed potatoes, libations, a half-time show, and overloaded dishwasher, it’s easy to lose the message of Thanksgiving. How many of us actually stop to

Computer woes
My life in a circuit   Arrgggghhhhh!  How many of us have cried some sort of expletive as we watch one of the most important tool of our craft, our computer, crash and die before our horrified eyes? I don’t know what it is about me; perhaps my fingers exude some sort of death ray that insinuates itself from me to the depths of my hard drive but in the last four years living in my old farmhouse, I have managed to damage or destroy a series

Rust
What secrets hide beneath the rust?   Rust is an interesting thing.  Most of the time it’s something we see as representing deterioration, destruction, decay, or a death of some sort.  We spend millions of dollars annually on products like Rustoleum to cover over this seemingly ugly cancer on our metal possessions, to hide the imperfections and brighten the surface.    Yet in many ways, rust is cool.  It’s a silent

Autumn
Raking up a boy It comes on so quickly.  No sooner are we enjoying the last dregs of summer, eking out a final barbeque with friends and basking in the warmth of the sun, that seemingly only mere days later autumn arrives. In some climates, this transition may seem gradual; the coming of the new season only noted on the calendar even as the balmy temperatures persist late into November.  I recall while living in San Diego how bored I had become with what I called &#

Impressions
Somebody left his mark Check this photo out.  My friend Donna took this photo of an impression a bird made as it landed on her truck windshield.  As there was no birdy-body, it’s to be assumed that this wayward avian was able to recover from the impact and fly away, probably a bit dazed, and most likely making a mental note to avoid dusty windshields in the future.  Donna says she could imagine if a bird had smacked into a clear windshield, perhaps seeing something