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Save the Grand: In Praise of Tacoma
Tacoma would lose a lot of its charm if it lost the Grand Cinema.
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Miraculous Macon
Living in this town must be a strange balancing act.
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Leavenworth Revisited
It’s amazing how the tenor of a trip changes with its participants.
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Dodo Bird Jobs
This isn’t the first time engineers have looked into automating one of my drawbridges, and it won’t be the last. People don’t like the idea of paying bridgetenders when they spend the bulk of their time “doing nothing.” These automation ideas generally do not come to fruition, because it’s very easy to get killed on…
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Small World, Indeed.
After graduating from high school, one of the first colleges I attended was Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida, the “nation’s oldest city.” I’m using quotes because the Anasazi in Chaco Canyon would have been highly amused by this designation. Nevertheless, St. Augustine is a beautiful, historic town. But if you’re a student without a car…
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Secret Revealed: Everyone in the US Owns Land!
Real Estate is without a doubt the best investment one can make. People fight wars over land. The song “This Land is Your Land” makes all of us proud. And it should. Just by virtue of being a US citizen, each and every one of us owns 84 million acres of land. Yup. That’s million…
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St. Augustine, Florida: Civil Rights Distilled
Since yesterday was Martin Luther King Day, my mind naturally turns to the civil rights movement. It seems that one of the best kept secrets about that movement were the events that took place in St. Augustine, Florida, just an hour south of where I now sit. St. Augustine is known as our nation’s oldest…
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Views from my Windows—Part Three
To start from the beginning of this story, see Parts One and two. As I was saying, and then my mother got cancer. She suffered for two years. Seriously, you wouldn’t have let your dog suffer the way that she was forced to. The doctors kept saying they didn’t know why she was still alive.…