Memorial...

...dedicated to my ancestors who died in battle, 150 years ago, right or wrong: James Robert Champion (great-great-grandfather), 7 August ...

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Happy May Day!

Cheers for Bealtaine!  Today is May Day, the Celtic holiday between the Spring equinoxe and the Summer solstice, and for Celts it is the fir...

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Rerun: Your Movie Guide for Easter 2007

Greetings, friends, I'm off on a two-day hike to the Bridge to Nowhere , but I wouldn't want to leave you high 'n dry for the ...

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So a Wampanoag and a Puritan Walk into a Bar...and Wake Up in 2008

Greetings, friends, As you can tell by the title of this SCREED, it started out as a Thanksgiving rant...then, well...  Anyway, I blame som...

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Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid, and Not of the Kids Breaking Your Windows

Greetings, friends, From an airplane, smoke has a very different quality than fog.  Yeah, I know it's not important, but it's inte...

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Bring Out the Brand New Guillotine

Greetings, friends, Thanks for all the replies to my request for a fax machine...although some of you seem mystified that I was asking for ...

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Feliz Día de la Madre

Greetings, friends, It's rare that I get so many chuckles in one weekend, probably as a tonic for "Porgy and Bess", that upli...

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