Anubis Bard

_ Following up on a previous post . . .  I used to be perplexed about why so many working and middle class conservatives could support ...

_ Chipping sparrow surveys the scene. The snow began falling before dawn in a cold, sleety curtain.  The browns and grays of ...

_ photo: Providence Journal Up in Cranston a 16-year old atheist objected to her school posting a school prayer in a position of pro...

_ 13 degrees and dropping fast.  The temperature will slip into the single digits tonight -- with a good breeze to insinuate chill...

_ The wind has stolen my energies and is using them to sing and re-arrange all the leaves. _

_ Arthur Brisbane, the public editor at the New York Times put his foot in it.  In a post titled,  Should the NYT be a Truth Vigilante?  h...

_ As I pushed a wheelbarrow of mulch under the ugliest of our ugly spruce trees, a golden-crowned kinglet combed through the quills looki...

_ David Roberts, who blogs at Grist  about sustainability issues is tired of being such a critically-minded downer: What we need now,...

_ Erik Lindberg has cogent post on energy and world view, where he argues that economics (and all the vast politics that are built upon t...

_ The tilted Earth shows its underbelly to the sun, and so those of us in the north make do with our long under-dose of sunlight.  But th...

_ Monica and I opened a bottle of very excellent wine from the Napa Valley and chatted with Clara in Costa Rica via skype.  Afterward, w...

_ It's common knowledge that the Republican slate of presidential candidates is shockingly weak, with a set of deeply flawed and even...

It was an excellent, relaxing holiday. We had all of those things that you are supposed to have (except maybe for snow): family, food, c...

_ The days have not been cold - but short and damp and drear In slippery embrace, planets and moons and rubble-rings have whirled an...

_ Watching the collection of fools and grifters that are competing for the Republican presidential nomination this time around, I couldn...

_ Words spoken at a guinea pig's funeral: "Maybe on some other plane you're grazing with your brother, Chino, and can te...

_ Porter's voice changed over the summer, but he's been finding it again.

_ It was Nico's tenth birthday, So we ambushed him with a surprise party at Señor Flaco's. Instead of...

_ This morning, the kittens were murdering a jumping mouse that they caught.  As Nico said, "It's hilarious, yet horrible."...

Clearing the basketball court of half a winter's firewood.