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Hail to the Queen of the September morning

Almost two years ago, I snapped a picture of a dying sunflower on I-70 in Denver. That was in the middle of our moving trip to Kansas. Ever since then, I’ve been hunting for a field of sunflowers in the Sunflower State. I also found more fields in Upstate NY.
Sure, it may be the touristy [...]

 

Another Work Week

PT’s CAFE, 29th ST — We lost Internet connection on Sunday morning. Imagine me going 24 hours without checking e-mail and headlines. So, I’m happy we went to thiswifi -enabled cafe this morning. Otherwise, I would have went bonkers. Plus, I would have went into work completely clueless on what’s going on in the world.
At [...]

 

Reflections on Thanksgiving

I’m used to celebrating Thanksgiving with a lot of people. This year, I had the folks who mattered most to me in Topeka - inside the kitchen: Mark and Daisy. We had a lovely holiday. In the tradition of my working experience, we did a Thanksgiving lunch. Sometimes I thought having to work on the [...]

 

Grassroots Art in the Sunflower State

OK, part two of our roadtrip through North Central Kansas…We traveled south from the World’s Largest Ball of Twine to Lucas, Kansas.
This town looks like other farming communities we passed on the highway….but once you wander off the main road - there’s a treasure trove of mammoth and quirky art installations. Civil war veteran SP [...]

 

Happy New Year’s! 2006

We made out to Manhattan, Kansas for the Little Apple Celebration. It was kinda dead around 6 pm….by 11:45 it was a mob scene. During the countdown, crazy K-State students and residents slammed against us from all directions. At some points, I couldn’t breathe. I imagine the celebration in NY must been even more insanse [...]