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Dueling Wreaths So it rained. It rained lots. Over 13 inches fell over the weekend. For a region that hadn’t had anything to speak of for two months, the ground wasn’t ready to soak it all up. Flash flooding peppered the local news reports as Art and I looked outside and pondered the rodeo. We’d…

Not everyday you see a big shuttlecock So Art was able to wrestle Friday off from work and we spent the day going around and seeing parts of Kansas City I hadn’t visited prior. We started off at the Crowne Center, a shopping propaganda by Hallmark. It’s pretty phenomenal, how they tie together all their…

The view above the Missouri/Kansas airtport. It hadn’t rained in Kansas City for almost two months. Two months that left the grass brown and the trees defending their very existence by dropping leaves early. The driver of the shuttle service was giddy as the first few drops started hitting the windshield from the airport. Unpacking…

Sha na na I like having cable on the road. It’s like a bag of weed that stays fresh in a locked freezer, like one o them safes at Taco Bell that can’t be opened by employees. I’m reminded I don’t need it, but I don’t mind it from time to time. So I’m watching…

It’s all a bit blurry… I remember a time in my life when I used to look UP at the shower. Gosh, it’s been years since that growth spurt between middle school and high school where I moved out of the husky department and into the world of freaky Big & Tall (with major emphasis…

As reported by Forbes while ranking single life in major cities: Cincinnati has ranked near the bottom of our list for three straight years. It ranks worst in nightlife and is almost as bad in terms of culture and cool–there are few envelope-pushing bohemians to be found here. “Cincity” does boast a few good nightspots.…

The steer survives the wild drag racin. Another glorious day, but a wee bit hotter. Less crowded, more friendly. Because of the heat, more shirts got taken off. The clumping of hunks amused and irked me a little. It was easy to put those views behind me standing at the edge of the arena. I…

Yeehaw. Friendly folks ’round every corner were there at the Windy City Rodeo this year. Enjoying the weather and slight breeze and low humidity. Didn’t see too much of the rodeo proper myself. It seemed light on contestants and heavy on lulls. They had the dance-floor set up under the beer and food tent. Haven’t…

Off to Alaska Rolled into Chicago and I returned to the thought that there should be medication for road rage. Once past the Toll Road that went from 5 lanes down to one, the traffic moved at a quick clip and sanity was restored. My copilot for the journey, Mike, rattled off how many “point…

“If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.” Norman Peale I’m not much for inspirational quotes, but it seemed fitting for this photo I snagged along Interstate 71 heading South from a meeting in Columbus today. Stuart Smalley would well up, I’m sure.