Archive for September, 2010

Humps, bumps and a few bruises too

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

How did I not know this? And so close to home. If you’ve been following this blog, you know how much I love camels (contrary to the popular opinion). In books, in travel on videos, and even in dairies. And the newest one: camels races, right here in the US of A. Yup! An old [...]

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Calling all leaf peepers, tailgaters, pumpkin eaters and harvesters

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

Today, 22 september at 11:09pm EST, marks the beginning of fall 2010. Happy autumnal equinox! I love autumn. It’s that wonderful bridge between the heat and turquoise blues of summer and the chills and cobalt blues of winter – the equal balance of light and dark. The days get shorter and more precious as winter’s [...]

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Survey results are in: Religion and the POTUS

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

Who knew that these survey questions would become this timely. Given last week’s events, and as lead up to the anniversary of  9/11, I’m not sure if that’s was a good or bad thing. The world seems to be more divisive than ever, with religion taking center stage. That said, a big thank you to [...]

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Excuse my First Amendment rant…

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Just because you can do something, does that mean you should? Florida Pastor Terry Jones can legally burn the Quran (on 9/11) in response to his opposition to the Islamic center near Ground Zero – so should he? Of course not. Self-centered, idiot of the week, month year, decade… is cleverly couching a bigger plan [...]

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