November 2024 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Categorically Speaking….
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Listen up…
I don’t go into rant mode often, but some things matter enough that I will. “Don’t go to the desert without water” is one. “Don’t break the children” is another. This is a third. {Rant} I bitch about my country … Continue reading
Posted in mental meanderings, photos (mine), When Photos Fail
Tagged civil rights, culture, History, photo, preservation, Texas
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27.7445N: 95.3860W
One of the great things about Houston is that despite the miserable climate we have sizable groups of people from everywhere living here, and sometimes they throw parties. For everyone. Yesterday, it was the Brazilian Women Foundation. (Their spelling, not … Continue reading
Willkommen – Christkindl Market
The calendar said I was going to the Tomball German Christmas Market this weekend. Unfortunately, as for many of us, the calendar failed to take account of the reality of life with aging parents, so instead I wound up at … Continue reading
Oops….
Says right here in Blogging for Dummies that I need to post regularly, certainly more often than every couple of months. Of course it also says that when you’ve been blogging for several years and your regular audience is in … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, History, LivingHistory, Rosenberg, Texas, Tourism, Travel
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29.72202 N, 95.38975 W,
I’ve never been to Peru, but it’s only one line on the map away from Ecuador, where I may end up, so when the folks at the Houston Museum of Natural Science announced that Peru would be the focus of … Continue reading
Posted in photos (mine), Texas, Walkabout - GPS
Tagged cultural, culture, dancers, Folklorico, Houston, PanaLeica, Peru, walkabout
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You gotta be off to see the wizard….
On the way to Goliad as soon as I log off here, to see Los Pastorales – a reproduction of an old play/performance the monks at Mission Espiritu Santo and the other early Spanish Missions used to teach the Christmas … Continue reading
29.78374N, 95.39728w
So yesterday afternoon the editor-beings dispatched me to the Heights to see a Citzen about a Constable. As happens I was up in the Heights one afternoon earlier this week and the traffic then had been similar to the mall … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, cute, Houston, kids, photo, Texas, walkabout
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Fiestas Patrias
It seems sometimes that close to half the countries south of Texas celebrate their independence from one colonial power or another within a very few days. Some of this is history, some is coincidence, but what it means is there’s … Continue reading
In the moment….
One of the risks of doing “hyper-local*” media work is that if you don’t make a constant effort to look out past the horizon, your universe gets very small. A few weeks ago I noticed in passing that a delegation … Continue reading
29.71529 N, 95.47829 W — Burnett-Bayland Park
GULFTON — There are days when making a living as a photojournalist doesn’t seem like the best idea I ever had. Last Saturday wasn’t one of them. Newspaper work , at its best, can be interesting and far from routine. … Continue reading
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Tagged cultural, culture, festival, fiesta, Houston, Latin@, photo, Texas
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