Today I got up and lit my smoker before my first meeting. Over the course of the day, in addition to work, I smoked two whole Boston Butts a...

Wyoming just had a major restoration of civil rights for non-violent felons. There remain problems.  A restoration of rights for nonviolent...

My mother sent me this photo today. If I’d been there another week, alas. 

 

This is a refreshing story.

It’s a sign of the changing city that an auto shop should be renovated into a feminist bookstore , but what a price tag: a million dollars! ...

The governor of Tennessee decided that he wanted gun control laws, and when the legislature refused to pass any he called them back for a s...

Last week the NYT published an opinion piece suggesting what the author described as a  better way  for American democracy: dispensing with ...

In fairness, that was the Weather Channel. The radar app on my phone said 90%. I had a pretty good feeling which one was going to prove to b...

With faith and patience, purgatories end. I have passed through the fire and noise, and returned at last to the peace and coolth of my mount...

Last night I was supposed to transfer in Atlanta to a midnight flight to Asheville, the last of the night. Our flight arrived about five min...

A few last images of the Big Hole Mountains and the distant Teton Range from later on today once I got up high. 

Dad29 sends this imagination of what Socrates might say about current events. 

My work on the county committee to look into our animal shelter's critical overcrowding is going well. We've reduced the shelter...

This is my last full day out West; by this time tomorrow I’ll be headed home. So, I took the day off to do one more hike. I decided to hike ...

I went to see my niece get awarded a stripe for her belt in jujitsu, and while I was there I’m afraid I hurt her instructor’s pride.  I didn...

Traveled out west myself for a bit, somewhat south of Grim. Some fellow travelers

Tonight we were invited to a party by my mother’s friends, and they put out a good table. Yesterday I made braised moose again — wine rather...