The Beginning....

The Beginning....
When William Least Heat-Moon toured the country many years ago, his steed, if you will, was a van that he named Ghost Dancing. His journey of America was 13,000 miles. His book is Blue Highways, A Journey Into America. My steed will be a Subaru WRX (traded for an XV Crosstrek). My travels will be, what in the past were called, the blue highways of Virginia. Years ago, maps showed secondary roads in blue. Yes, the ones less traveled.

Monday, September 11, 2017

F**k a Cow!!!!!

It's 3:39 AM, September 9, 2017. Hurricanes, Irma and Jose, are attacking our country, killing people, destroying property, making people flee their homes, and George Noory at Coast-to-Coast AM (during the week, 10 PM to 2 AM PST) is telling people to clear their minds so that they can make Hurricane Irma diminish and go off the coast and away from more destruction.

Just concentrate, he says. Yes, that will do it.

Nothing else to say at this time.

Thursday, September 7, 2017

Is it Possible for a Comma to be Worth an Estimated $10,000,000?


Do you folks know about Oxford or serial commas? Some use them and some don't. I try my darndest to write as well as I can, trying to write grammatically correct prose ( the ordinary language people use in speaking or writing).

Newspapers use the Associated Press style guide. And, they do not use Oxford or serial commas.

(1) Johnny loved chocolate, ice cream, peanut butter, and hot dogs.

(2) Johnny loved chocolate, ice cream, peanut butter and hot dogs

You may notice that in (1) there is a comma after peanut butter. Yes, that's the sometimes pesky Oxford or serial comma.


I use serial commas.

Here's the Boston Globe article about the $10,000,000.


The Hurricanes Are Here and Coming, Harvey Just Struck and Others are on the Way, Causing Death and Destruction. Are You Praying?




This article will save me a lot of time and aggravation. 

I had thought about an article similar to this one, however, this writer does a far-better job than I would have.

As I best understand it, this photo is from a hurricane several years ago (not Harvey), and the house in the photo was the home of two young children who were killed!

If you're a believer, please take a few minutes and think it all through. Folks, religion makes no sense. Period. And, if you need some help, look up: cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias, and motivated reasoning.