Category: Thoughts & Observations
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Up in the trees
Here are some of the photos taken of me just starting out on the ropes course Monday at Kennolyn. Though I had actually been a ropes course instructor at the camp, it’s been six years since I actually went up on one. When these photos were taken the fear hadn’t really set in yet. That…
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Returning to Camp: Kennolyn Reunion
Sunday and Monday were interesting days out here. Mike Orlando – my kind host here in San Francisco whom I met while working at Kennolyn Camp near Santa Cruz – and I cruised down Highway 17, over the mountains and attended the 60th Summer Celebration and Reunion at our former stomping grounds. It was good…
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Chalk It Up To Sacramento: Art festival turns park into canvas
Every Labor Day weekend in Sacramento’s Fremont Park – just catercorner from where I lived from 2001 to 2003 and just blocks from the heart of downtown – there is a mini-festival called “Chalk It Up To Sacramento“. The park where this all happens is one city block big and surrounded by sidewalks. Each square…
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Writing abot my trip: Joe now in California
Through the gracious help of a kind girlfriend (who took me to the airport at, as she will tell you, 4:27 a.m.) and a Boeing 777 and United Airlines, I made it to San Francisco in one piece. Then a screeching BART ride later, a short ride on Muni, I made it to Mike’s “dungeon”…
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Margaret Garner: Powerful and profoundly disturbing
This evening – well, yesterday now – I was given the fortunate opportunity to go to the open dress rehearsal of the Cincinnati Opera‘s local premiere of Margaret Garner, an opera they co-commissioned. Based on a local Cincinnati story, the opera, though not completely historically accurate, is good – very good, in fact – and…
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Jesus gave me a woman
Well, okay. So I made it through nearly a week posting everyday and then not only did the wheels fall off, the axle broke. But we’re out of the shop and ready to roll. Walking back recently to my home with co-host Brian from a movie viewing at Newport on the Levee got me thinking…
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Trying to have more interesting days…
Today and this evening have been spent, in large part, getting ready for tomorrow’s radio show. It’ll be our fourth show in what has turned out to be a very fun experience. It’s a lot of work, but, in my opinion, totally worth it. We’ve also received a tremendous response, with an article in the…
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Wal-Mart in the wind
At, oh, around say 6 p.m. or so my mother called to double-check that I wasn’t now changing my voter registration to Precinct YBR in Oz, Kansas or something after the kaboom surprise thunderstorms swept through the area. Living in Over-the-Rhine the sound of thunderclaps have to be weighed against the sound of gun shots…
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So, uh, iPods. They been ’round long?
Well, I guess I ought to start writing something, so here goes… This Blog got lost. I created it sometime a while back, then did nothing with it. I accidentally rediscovered it just a few weeks back when a friend started her own Blog and I wanted to add a comment. One for saving passwords…