Writing in my journal while in Mexico.

Winter blog phot

another new photo--actually this one was taken in the Fall of 2006--but I needed a "cooler" photo of me--the one of me in wool clothing while cross-country skiing at 10,000 feet just didn't feel like summer...

blog photo

new blog photo

Skiing across Cedar Breaks (photo taken in the late '90s).

Travel

See also The Wild Side and The Home Front

New Orleans Relief Worktrip photos
Northbound on the City of New Orleans
New Orlean's Stories #3
New Orlean's Stories #2
New Orlean's Stories #1
All Aboard
World Largest Christmas Tree
Out of here!
Honduras 2005 #7 (food)
Honduras 2005 #6 (pictures)
Honduras 2005 #5 (politics)
Honduras 2005 #4 (pictures)
Honduras 2005 #3 (village life)
Honduras 2005 #2 (home)
Honduras 2005 #1 (Hunkered down)
Comeing home (from NC)
Backroads and License Plates
Death Valley 2005
Rambling in the Desert 2005
Climbing Turtlehead

Trains

Trains in China (book review)
The Virginia and Truckee
The Southshore Line to Chicago
Masan to Seoul Line
Coming Home on the Coast Starlight
Northbound on the City of New Orleans
City of New Orleans and other train experiences
Trains in Utah (book review)
Trains in Florida (book review)
Trains in Michigan (book review)

Who says you don't talk about politics and religion?

The day after Easter
Rantings about Westboro Baptist
Voice of a martyr
Olympic Skiing (yeah, it's political & even religious to some of us)
Dead Eye Dick (this is also filed under satire, but it's true)
Those Danish Cartoons
Political Rantings of Nevada Jack
Ethics of striving for a better world
Public speaking, praying and hurricanes

Getting to know sage (meme's and stuff)

The Joy of Reading (reading list of women's authors)
The Joy of Reading (chauvinistic list of favorite book)
Misc stuff
My ten favorite things
Seven Songs
Four Thing Meme
My ramblings
7 thing meme

The Home Front

2006
My daughter on capital punishment
Double Dating
Life in hell update
Life in hell
Resurrection of the Big Fritz (winter puzzles)
Day with my daughter
The sins of the father (forgetting to be the tooth fairy)
Peanut Butter Tall Tell

2005
On Being Home at Christmas
Christmas Eve along the Carolina Coast
Not the day to play Martha Stewart

Food (eating out, fixing it yourself)

This is not up to date!
2007

Eatin' Cheap (beans and rice)
Eatin' Oysters
Down South Recipes (Brunswick Stew and Hushpuppies)

2006
Sweet Potato Casserole
Cornish Pasties
Ice Tea
Cooking for Yankees
Fat Tuesday (preparing for a crowd)

2005
Paul's Place (a hot dog stand)
Cracker Barrel (a critical review)
Sage's Cornbread (recipe)
Honduran Food
Apple Pie (recipe)
Green Tomato Relish (a story)
Tomato Sandwiches
Barbeque (a review & story)
Honduran Beer
Hot Butter Rum (recipe)

Book and Movie Reviews

2009
To the Field of Stars (book review)
The Road Home (movie review)
Mercury Falls (book review)
An Altar in the World (book review)
The Prodigal God (book review)
Goodbye to a River (book review)
The Road (book review)
Write with Fire (book review)
A Confederacy of Dunces (book review)
David Brinkley: A Memoir (book review)
The Cape Fear (Rivers in America Series, a book review)

Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the 70s (book review)

Population 485 (book review)

Zhou Yu's Train (movie review)

Rick Bragg, All Over but the Shoutin' (book review)

Prather, We have Taken a City (book review)

Elrich, A Match to the Heart (book review)

Rick Bragg, Ava's Man (book review)

Rick Bragg, The Prince of Frogtown (book review)
China Road (book review)
Holy Smoke (book review)
Following Jesus in a Culture of Fear (book review)
Writing About Your Life (book review)
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (book review)
Skin Tight (book review)

2008
Spring Training (book review)
The Panic of 1907 (book review)
The Same River Twice (book review)
Uncommon Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment (book review)
"W" (movie review)
Rock Me on the Water: A Life on the Loose (book review)
The Legal Limit (book review)
September Dawn (movie review)
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town (book review)
Wild Card Quilt: The Ecology of Home (book review)
Handling Sin (book review)
Who Moved My Cheese (book review)
Deep Change (book review)
Sentimental, Heartbroken Rednecks (book review)
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (book review)
Everything Must Change (book review)
Lonely are the Brave (movie review)
Lost in the Wild (book review)
The Burmanese Harp (movie review)
Lay that Trumpet in Our Hands (book review)
Fire (movie review)
The Worst Hard Time (book review)
The General (movie review)
In Nevada (book review)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves (book review)
Fitzcarraldo (movie review)
Water for Elephants (book review)
Off the Map (movie review)
Sailing the Inland Sea (book review)
Looking for Longleaf: The Fall an Rise of an American Forest (book review)
A Poetry Handbook (book review)
Fair Weather & Rock Springs (book reviews)

2007
Deep Survival (book review)
Sick Puppy (book review)
Skinny Dip (book review)
The Kite Runner (book review)
The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought (book review)
The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living (book review)
Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little Town (book review)
Gilead (book review)
Traver On Fishing (book review)
Subduing Satan (book review)
Plain Heathen Mischief (book review)
Ikiru (movie review)
Blood Done Sign My Name (book review)
July, July (book review)
The Year the Lights Came On (book review)
Our Endangered Values (book review)
The Old Man and the Boy & The Ballard of the Flim-Flam Man (two book reviews)
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (movie review)
Me Talk Pretty One Day (book review)
Vietnam: A History (book review)
Sabbath Creek (book review)
River Teeth (book review)
High School Musical and "We're No Angels" (two movie reviews)
Austerlitz (book review)
Lizzle Bright and the Buckminster Boy (book review)
The Valley of Light (book review)
Angels with Dirty Faces (movie review)
The Mind of the South (book review)
Intimate Stories (movie review)
Andy Catlett: Early Travels (book review)
Crossing to Safety (book review)
They Marched into Sunlight (book review)
For one more day (book review)
Earth (movie review)
In the Heart of the Sea (book review)
Second Hand Lions (movie review


2006
Ruldoph (movie review)
Roja (movie review)
Deer on a Bicycle (book review)
Freedom at Midnight (book review)
Water (movie review)
The Founding Fish (book review)
Walking it Off (book review)
Nearest Book Meme
Iraq for Sale (movie review)
3-Iron (movie review)
Remembering Ed Abbey (notes on an author)
The Johnstown Flood (book review)
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 (book review)
The Alchemist (book review)
The River of Doubt (book review of TR's Amazon expedition of 1914)
The Joy of Reading (women's edition)
The Joy of Reading (chauvinistic edition)
A Very Good Marriage and the Battleship Potemkim (a book and movie review)
The Contrary Farmer (book review)
Anne Coulter (Nevada Jack's attempt at a review)
Front Porch Tales (book review)
Troy (movie review)
The Undertaking (book review)
"The Legend of Suriyothai" and 1968 (a movie and book review)
Grizzly Man (movie)
Water & Sky and Dying Well (books: wilderness travel and theology of death)
Riding the Iron Rooster (book-travel)
Maria Full of Grace (movie)
Through Painted Deserts and The Pilgrimage (books on spiritual journeys)
The Crime of Padre Amaro (movie)
Hannah Coulter (book-novel)
The Notebook (book-novel)
The World is Flat (book-economics)

2005
Waiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhood (book review)
Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean (book review)
My Life on Mountain Railroads (book review)
Reverence: Renewing a forgotten virtue (book review & essay)
Habits of Industry and The Bridge (books: history & a novel)
Whistling Dixie (book on the South)
Gitanjali (book of poetry)
Shards (book of poetry)
Off to the Side (book--autobiography)
Secret of Water, Believing in Place, The River Why, Big Fish and Where Rivers Changes Direction (five books--all having a tie to water or the lack of water)