Handsome Family Club Café September 28, 2016 Lately I’ve been trying to pin point exactly when I first started listening to the Handsome Family. To my best recollection it was sometime in late 2001. An old friend of mine gave me a CD he made […]
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Manta Night Experience
Our family got to experience an amazing trip of a lifetime this past June in Hawaii…one of our favorite things was swimming with the manta rays
And so it starts…again
Back in October 2007, I launched Ironspoke.com. There are a lot of details that go into building a website. One of the first things I had to do was design a logo. Actually, before that even, I had to come up with a name. […]
Olympus Tough TG-610
My initial impressions of this camera are OK. I’m impressed with the fact that it seems beefier and tougher than its predecessor but controls seem a bit cheesier and not quite as intuitive. I’ll explain more as I use it more. On paper, the features […]
Confucius say
Confucius say Beware the man who takes twice as many words to say the same thing as the other guy. The other day, a half hour was spent congratulating the LSU tigers baseball team. There was a motion spent speaking about how great the team […]
One Spooky Ride
One Spooky Ride By James W. Yanosko Once there was a man named Vlad who went to work as a bicycle guide. He was from Kansas and he was young and strong. He dreamed of guiding people in exotic locations and when he jumped […]
Teeth in the wrong places
Teeth in the wrong places (Ponca-Otoe) When Coyote was roaming around for adventures, looking for great deeds to do, someone told him of an evil sorceress, an old woman who lived with her two wicked daughters. Many young men went there to sleep with the […]
Karma
Karma · It opens with a frog sitting calmly on a lily pad · All of the sudden a dragonfly buzzes by and the frog leaps and misses · The camera stays on the dragonfly · The dragonfly comes to rest on a reed and […]
Around Troy Hill, Spring Hill and Reserve Township
Originally posted 5/3/13 Well Its been exactly a week since I finished the above referenced book for Arcadia Publishing. I overnighted the package on Thursday afternoon but I didnt actually finish the Acknowledgement and Introduction sections until just about this time last Tuesday. It was […]
Murder for Money
Murder for money By Jim Yanosko I tried several times being rude to her in hopes she would just leave. If she left then there was no way Richard would kill her. His plans would be spoiled and this whole mess would just evaporate. She […]