Back in the days when the West was wilder, there was a way station on Orr Springs road three miles west of the junction of the Low Gap and Orr Springs roads. Called the Halfway…
Posts published in October 2009
About horses, I knew not much. The few I had ridden back in the States were beaten down robots one finds in rental stables-the giddy-up-go plodders that get you from A to B and back…
The jousting between the White House and Fox News is drawing grave warnings from pundits to Obama’s team that this is a losing issue for their man. They quote the old tag, “Never pick a…
10/1 9:52am Marijuana was discovered not far from the Yorkville Post Office. 10/1 7:56pm An unidentified man was talking to himself on Ornbaun Road. 10/8 8:51am Marijuana was under cultivation within 1000 feet of a…
What a silly idea, competitive meditation. Yet in America all things become competitive and hierarchical as reflections of the dominant operating system. Twenty years ago the notion of competitive yoga would have been just as…
Bloomberg reports that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s closest aides earned millions of dollars a year working for Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and other Wall Street firms. Bloomberg adds that none of these aides faced Senate confirmation.…
A couple of weeks ago I visited Christine at her Clark Road home, generally believed to be the oldest house in the Valley. Along with a cup of coffee she also gave me some delicious…