Fighting Climate Change
We’re living through what has been one of the hottest years on record and are constant reports of extreme weather and dangerous flooding due to climate change. It’s all so overwhelming. What can a...
Category: sadness
Cold War Column
You can check out Anna’s column in the Dallas Morning News on the unfortunate Cold War nostalgia that is creeping into our our lives as the result of the Russia-Ukraine war.
REQUIEM FOR 2ND AVENUE NORTH
*ed note: this is a developing story. We’ve done our best to confirm the facts at time of publication…but things change By Jason T Sparks Early Christmas morning, 2020, and my wife and I...
THROUGH SPACE, TIME, AND MIDDLE AMERICA PART TWO: POLISH FORTUNE TELLERS, DENNY’S, AND SOLITUDE
As I roll through another international neighborhood, I begin to notice the locals are mostly in Cubs gear, and all walking towards the same thing. Turns out I’m driving towards it—Irving Park intersects with West Addison, as in 1060 West Addison, AKA Wrigley Field, AKA the official address of one Elwood Blues. I can’t believe my luck—I wanted to experience this town, and this one road appears to be giving me Peak Chicago.
The End of SXSW As We Know It
For the last week, I’ve been running around like a manic at the South By Southwest Festival. I’ve seen interviews with bands, watched movies, and declined an inordinate number of chances to tweet about...
Someone in Austin, Texas Was Very Sad to Read About the Latvian Supermarket Collapse
Latvia doesn’t occupy a large spot in the consciousness of most Americans. It does in mine. From the first moment I first arrived on a bus in the capital of Riga, Latvia in the...
Fall is Always a Sad Time, And This Past Weekend I Was In Asheville For a Funeral
Fall is always a sad time of year. The days get shorter. The leaves fall off the trees. Sometimes you end up going to the funeral of your 86 year-old great aunt who lived on the same farm her entire life.
Reading the Book “One Day” Moments Before the Movie Came Out!
On my way back to Austin from my summer adventures, I read the novel One Day by David Nicholls. I read it in pretty much one giant gulp. While I had toyed with the...
I Don’t Want To Go To The Dentist
When I was in high school, I had the most traumatic dental experience of anyone I know. Stop reading now if that sort of thing makes you uncomfortable. When I was 15 years-old, I...
Chuckie and the Health Care Debate…
The reality of our national health-care crisis was recently brought home to me in a sudden and dramatic fashion. In mid-October, our sweet family member Charles (aka Chuckie to his friends) was struck with...
