Higher Education in the rocky hills just North of Houston
This will make more sense (not a lot more) if you read this first)My Papa was mostly self educated. His grandma taught him to read from the labels on ketchup and whiskey bottles and...
View ArticleJust so everbody knows, I may not be long for this world
Yesterday evenin’ I found a sparrow sized moth perched above my back door,it was gone this mornin’. A little research proved it to be a Black Witch Moth.Throughout its Central American range it has...
View ArticleHow to Make a Trump Pie
Dry Ingredients by weight20% — Capt Queeg20% — Lonesome Rhodes20% — Vince, the ShamWow guy20% — Scrooge McDuck (without the humor)20% — Charles Foster Kane (with added delusion)in addition 1 cup of...
View ArticleI couldn't get the MOT to open so
I’m posting my mornin’ greetings here —Mornin’ everbody!!! JoF
View ArticleThe Difference Between a Hurricane and a Tropical Storm Explained by a...
I’ve lived on the Gulf Coast since I left my boyhood home on the pimento ranch. I Remember every storm since Carla in the Sixties and having just come though Harvey I have some opinions on the...
View ArticleIf this doesn"t scare Hell out of you then you should watch it again
Watch this and ask yourself if this is what the future should be allowed to become.We were compelled during WWII to develop nuclear weapons to the eternal detrimentof humanity — this time we should...
View ArticleOne Christmas Eve in the Gulf (wrote pretty much just the way it happened)
Lat:N. 28º 59’ 12”Lon:W. 90º 23’ 14”‘Twas the night before Christmas, out there in the Gulf.The North wind was howling and the seas pretty rough.The CHICKASAW was lying just off of Fourchon,eighty...
View ArticleBreaking News John Young, Astronaut has passed away
Arguably the best aviator that ever lived
View ArticleEssential Questions
We are all born with questions, at first unformed and shoutedto the confusion and then, slowly at first, then likea spring from our minds, words come.The words frame the questionsand let them be posed...
View ArticleOne Christmas Eve in the Gulf (wrote pretty much just the way it happened)
Lat:N. 28º 59’ 12”Lon:W. 90º 23’ 14”‘Twas the night before Christmas, out there in the Gulf.The North wind was howling and the seas pretty rough.The CHICKASAW was lying just off of Fourchon,eighty...
View ArticleBreaking News John Young, Astronaut has passed away
Arguably the best aviator that ever lived
View ArticleEssential Questions
We are all born with questions, at first unformed and shoutedto the confusion and then, slowly at first, then likea spring from our minds, words come.The words frame the questionsand let them be posed...
View ArticleWhile I Was Kayaking I Found a Mysterious Box On a Sandbar
The last trip I took in PAM, my ‘yak, I went up a creek with no name in a county that don’t matter. I was way past where anybody with any sense would go, well beyond the range of powerboats and...
View ArticleA Visit to the Island of Orphan Policies
The other night I ate a light supper of hogshead cheese, Polish dill pickles, a rusty can of spam I found in an old trunk and turnip greens fried in bacon drippings then retired to a pallet on...
View ArticleThis Man's Passing Deserves Notice Here
On the twenty fourth of November Ray Hill passed away in Houston. He was a remarkable man whose legend encompassed advocacy for gay rights, civil rights, prison reform and was the host of The...
View ArticlePut a Pat of Butter on the Tomcat's Nose
Duke the Tomcat has been sick due to a respiratory infection brought on by his FIV.I’ve been nursing Him for about three weeks while enriching the Veterinarian. In the last couple of days He seems to...
View ArticleLat:N. 28º 59’ 12" Lon:W. 90º 23’ 14”
‘Twas the night before Christmas, out there in the Gulf.The North wind was howling and the seas pretty rough.The CHICKASAW was lying just off of Fourchon,eighty miles from location ‘till the weather...
View ArticleA Painful Update on Duke, an Uncommon Tomcat
Some Kossacks may remember the diary posted a few days ago about Duke, my sick tomcat and the ‘song’ I had written for Him. I was celebrating what I thought was beginning of his recovery from a...
View ArticleMake Diplomas Free
Why shouldn’t there be a federally sponsored and accredited online university where college degrees would be granted in most majors without the need to enter into the ivy covered halls of debt....
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