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We attended the early service today, and afterwards, decided to sit in the sun outside Starbucks and enjoy the weather and a beverage for a little bit. Perhaps everyone had that idea; the drive-through was  constant and the line at the counter inside was impressively long. We placed our order, and stepped aside with the …

A critic, as I once read, is like a eunuch in a harem: he knows how it’s done, sees how it’s done, but can’t do it himself. The Internet eunuch abounds. He leaves comments on web sites, blogs and forums, instinctively negative or critical. He is the reason for moderated comments and P. O. Box …

It’s not that I miss the computer, the TV, the electronic gadgets — the background noise. The thing that bothered me the most about losing power (for just one day, mind you, so minor!) was that food in my refrigerator and freezer would be wasted, and that I had design and computer jobs to get …

Floods of short duration are best, for they don’t allow class envy a chance to bubble to the surface. The reader need merely select any story from the current crop of flood-related articles on the local newspaper’s website, and go to the comments accompanying it. You have your random religious nutter sprinkled in and about …

In 1997, the Red River of the North flooded the Eastern part of the state, topping off Blizzard Hannah from just a few weeks earlier. Hannah snapped tens of thousands of power poles and buried entire houses, and then, when she melted away, decided to let the state sink beneath the water. Spring flooding had …