Early voting in Racine

I voted. Amy voted too. We voted early. We have been receiving the notices from the Obama campaign and seeing how they urge people to vote early. They even have a Web site, VoteForChange.com, to help Americans find out how to vote early. Still, I wasn’t...

Apple orchard near Burlington, WI: Brightonwoods Orchard

Just a quick reminder that we’re now well into apple season, and that one of the best places in our area to experience this fleeting magnificence is Brightonwoods Orchard near Burlington, Wisconsin. Brightonwoods is not an orchard you visit to pick apples right...

The Great Recession of 2008

I cannot process the economic depression is unfolding here in the U.S.A. over the last few days. A crushing, amorphous weight has me plastered to the sofa in front of the TV. My breathing is labored, and my heart stops beating every now and then for ten or fifteen...

Social media smorgasbord: Four weeks wandering Web 2.0

Nothing in particular has inspired any new blog posts here in recent weeks. Instead, I’ve spent much of my free time playing around with a few of the endless new gizmos that are hatching every minute in the now four-year-old world of “Web 2.0,” the...

Rick Warren’s Saddleback Civil Forum

There were a number of interesting moments in Saturday night’s “Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency,” but one that I have not seen mentioned came as part of John McCain’s response to a question about taxes. Part 5 of Pastor Rick...

Election 2008: It’s God time

Reading Andrew Sullivan’s acclaimed piece pn Election 2008 in last December’s Atlantic magazine, I noted the emphasis on Barack Obama’s religious conviction and how one Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright introduced Obama to Jesus Christ. Sullivan was wowed: To...