Blog Weekly Roundup There's really not a weekly roundup. Maybe I'll start one as a way of avoiding too many links. The situation in Afghanistan is scary. I feel terrible for the Afghan people, but I am glad that we are ending our military occupation. My foreign policy days are behind me, so
Blog Checking in... Bad blogger. I'm still here, even though things have been quiet. Well, I'm here, but I'm not there. I'm in Phoenix for a bit. Long drive. I intended to write as I went, but I haven't perfected that mobile work flow. It was a beautiful drive, not without its challenges.
Out of the Shoebox Out of the Shoebox: One more then move on I got fixated on the images from the anti-sharia protest in Seattle in June 2017. I'm not sure why. It's probably a combination of things: I didn't look at them closely at the time, the content seems relevant to this strange loop we're in, and I'm procrastinating on something else.
Out of the Shoebox Out of the Shoebox: I want to go back; is that denial? Always have a notebook and pen at hand. I thought about this post a lot tonight. I had some real pithy zingers. Those zingers have been relegated to the abyss. Godspeed zingers, we hardly knew ya. But to borrow an annoying word (among many) from the past year or so
Arizona On the Streets: Melrose, Phoenix, Arizona I’m in Phoenix visiting family over the holidays. Several years ago I discovered Copper Star Coffee in Phoenix’s Melrose neighborhood. It’s a great coffee shop in a converted old-timey gas station. I liked it immediately. Copper Star Coffee, Melrose, Phoenix, December 2018. I try to make it
Anti-racism A Tense August 2017 The Patriot Prayer group held a rally on 13 August 2017 at Seattle’s Westlake Park. It was bound to be a tense day even on a normal Pacific Northwest weekend. But this was not a normal weekend. On Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia, James Alex Fields killed Heather Heyer when
