Home on the Range

A Man's morning shave ritual.  It's something that's been done for centuries, even in the days of rampant beards, a number of men preferring to remain clean-shaven. My brother always had a beard. With his red hair, build, and height, he very much resembled...

The cold this last week has been brutal, with temps in the minus 40s with the wind chill. Even on a calm day, it was in the minus numbers.  Not unheard of in Chicago, but it's been about 3 years since we had a January this cold.  The streets are empty...

  "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer". - Albert Camus
Minus 32 here today with the wind chill - a good day to make soup, bake bread, and keep near the stove.  Northern Illinois has only an inch or two of snow forecast, no freezing rain or ice, for which we are grateful.  Be safe out there.  Brigid...

Chapter 53 - Things That Go Bump in the Night - From True Course - Lessons From a Life Aloft.  Independent Author Network Book of the Year Non-Fiction
An aircraft engine has as many variances of sound as ahuman.  There are satisfied hums, deep-throated snarls, and the incessantwhine of someone who is never satisfied, no matter what you do for them. Then, there is that sound, in and of itself, the sound...