The rain stopped long enough for this wild view… Yes, those are clouds dipping way down in front of the mountains.

When I was a kid, I would sometimes spend the night at the firehouse where my dad worked — station 9, which is up a steep hill from my house.

More than 70 children were killed today in a school fire in India. I’m just incredulous and horrified. The fire started in the kitchen of the Lord Krishna school as lunch was being cooked for the 450 students  [more...]

I was perusing some personals ads this morning — laying in bed alone tends to make one’s mind wander toward what might have been, you know — and finally came to a realization. A sad, pathetic one. I  [more...]