If you know me, you probably realize that I don’t gain much comfort from religion. I’m too much of a cynic, apparently. This weekend we went to the funeral for my brother-in-law. I really didn’t know him, I met him at my wedding and perhaps saw him a couple other times. He left home when […]
A classic tale of critters done wrong, right here in Texas. The American city of Texarkana suffered a slight setback to its popular annual festival this weekend, when dead pigeons started plummeting from the sky. The ex-pigeon deluge came as Texarkana, a city confusingly placed halfway across the Texas/Arkansas border, was celebrating the Quadrangle festival. […]
When the weather guy says there is a “cold front” coming, he really means: “it might drop below 70 degrees before sunrise. Maybe even all the way down to 68.” Update (the next morning): it made it down to 71. Good try, cold front! Maybe next time! But the humidity dropped to only 65%, so […]