Miscellaneous

Autobiographical Corner The weather is so hot, the thermometers have stopped working. My iGoogle homepage application said the temperature in my town would hit 108. That's what a local radio station announced, too. My friend's car thermometer said it hit 107. Another friend's car

Garden pic from yesterday: peppers in the foreground, then The Verdant Pathway, then watermelons (next to trellis), brussels sprout, tomatoes to the right, grapes further back. This is about 40% of my garden. Garden Stuff Whatta hard year to garden. The Spring was hot, then cool, then hot again . . . and

Two Things Whew, things are a whirlwind at the office. Not much today. I just have a few quick things: 1. This piece from the current issue of The Atlantic about John F. Kennedy [http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/jackie-and-the-girls/9000/]. Man, I knew

The Return Monday I've returned from vacation. Same as every year: Houghton Lake (Michigan's largest inland lake) for a week with Marie, seven kids, and 40 in-laws. It's a pleasant time, and it leaves a ton of time for reading. It's

"[Y]our very prayers against the angry feelings that trouble you should be gentle, calm, and without vehemence." St. Francis de Sales

A family in Colorado was reunited with their lost bulldog, after it was found 500 miles away. In response, the bulldog was like, “Jeez, can't these people take a hint?” A new study found that pigeons can actually recognize human faces. So I guess my pigeon friend was

Over the weekend, a man in Tennessee was kicked out of a Kenny Chesney concert because he looked too much like Kenny Chesney. That actually happens a lot – in fact, my grandma was kicked out of an Aerosmith concert for looking too much like Steven Tyler.

From the current issue of New York Magazine: In Hell's Kitchen recently, two overweight tourists caused a pedicab to tip over backward. TDE comment: It's a phenomenon slated to increase. A study released this week says that 33% of all Americans are now obese. In Central

"We must live beautifully." Mother Teresa