I continue working outside and around the house, performing a variety of manual labor. Yesterday I dethatched, overseeded and fertilized the back lawn which struggles to thrive because of competition for sunshine and ground nutrients from numerous trees. I hope […]
This past winter’s labors were light by any standard. The fresh bag of snow melt, opened late last year and used only a handful of times, yearns to understand its neglect. The snow shovels still propped against the tool shed […]
I didn’t do much work in the yard last year. Mostly mowed the lawn. Didn’t trim bushes or prune trees. But pruning and trimming were activities I contemplated off and on during the winter because trees were gradually transgressing, going […]
I didn’t watch the NCAA basketball tourney very closely on Saturday or Sunday. I wasn’t surprised by Kansas State’s convincing win over BYU, actually feeling good about my revised prediction (KSU by 10; actually winning by 12). Maybe if I […]
Quizas un poco tarde en el dia para poner este video celebrando el dia de San Patricios, pero justo lo encontre. Simboliza algo significante en cuanto a la cuestion de la hibridez cultural en general y en la vida de […]
Note to reader: I wrote this piece about six weeks ago and submitted it to the “humor” page of a prestigious magazine that deals with important cultural and historical issues in the United States. Their announced acceptance/rejection time line has […]
I’ve been trying to sort my thoughts this morning. I feel like writing something, need to write something. Organize the chaos of sentiments. Assert my rational capacities over and against my dark irrational self. I’ve been trying to understand suicide […]
Maybe I’m being unfair, too hard on him, expecting too much for a man of color, the first to be the President of a nation that continues to be in denial about its history of institutionalized racial inequality. (Tea Party […]