I love nature. I like to think my Japanese heritage gives me some amount of Zen-Mojo (Yeah, Baby-san!) that connects me to nature. Add to that growing up among the Appalachian hills and you've got a strange country boy. I was reading an article about conservation that intrigued me. I think we're in a Catch-22 situation as far as our energy ( Read more... )

The Picto-Personality Test


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An artist in Baker, CA chained his feet together in the desert for the purpose of drawing the image ended up hopping through the desert for 12 hours after realizing he lost the key to the restraints. I shall not comment on this person's IQ; we artists/writers/madmen often are distracted and little things like keys are, at that moment in time, ( Read more... )

Here's my favorite quote (as of today ( Read more... )

So I put my wife on a jet yesterday so she could go home to be with her father who is on his deathbed. (Is this too morose to begin a blog entry with?) She'll be gone until Jan 15th and I'm playing Mr. Mom, just without as much humor as Michael Keaton ( Read more... )

Back from Georgia for a couple days now and I've been feeling a bit melancholy and at first I didn't know why. Yes, I saw my Mom and my sister and her family and that was great and part of the reason for my mood, I'm sure. But today I was driving along I95, looking out at the horizon when it dawned on me again (I've had this thought before... ( Read more... )

I'll be offline for a few days. Driving up to GA for Christmas. My sister lives in Cumming (for which I give her NO end of grief, hehehe) and brought my Mom down from WV, so it'll be nice. Except for the cold ( Read more... )

May you all have a blessed Christmas and holiday. Remember what is important: your faith, your family then everything else. With that in mind, I'm copying an email I got from a friend in IL that I found particularly touching. I hope you do, too.
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New poem I'm working on. Any constructive criticism wd be appreciated...
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Found this on watchingj00's LJ so I thought I'd give it a try...

Your Birthdate: January 23
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