RoadTurn: Reflections on the Paul Potts Story

We are fairly well moved up the hill to the end of the road and I’ve finally come up with a decent (dial-up) internet connection. It is not AOL. To top it off, we now have a family television package that allowed us to view America’s Got Talent right from the comfort of our living [...]

After all the bragging and holier-than-thou blips I’ve dispensed about my family not subscribing to broadcast television, we now have a DSS satellite sitting in the yard. Ostensibly, this is because the kids and I need it for school. A glimpse of reality is that last night we were all excited that we would, for [...]

We are on the road again and home is a hotel room. Since we don’t subscribe to broadcast television in Kentucky, last night was my first opportunity to watch the America’s Got Talent show “live.” What a disappointment. It wasn’t even vaguely entertaining: A cross-dressing lip syncher, a strange guy who likes to lie on [...]

We are in Florida tonight and so are a whole lot more people. Thousands are here to see Mickey and friends at Disney World. Thousands more came to see a Canadian revivalist named Todd Bentley. He has set up a tent not far from Orlando and is drawing an increasingly large crowd of visitors from [...]

A poem in honor of those who have given of themselves to found and keep this “one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
A Nation’s Strength
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
What makes a nation’s pillars high
And it’s foundations strong?
What makes it mighty to defy
The foes that round it throng?
It is not gold. [...]

Welcome to July. I love first days. I love beginnings. My favorite parts of a trip are the planning and the journey. Usually, once the destination is gained I am ready to get back on the road again. No wonder my resume reads like an occupational classifications guide–I yearn for the adventure of moving on. [...]

Anyone out there feeling like your One Chance either already passed by or maybe got snatched up by someone just a little quicker and a little brighter? I know that feeling well.
Here is a treat from Rene Godefroy. Born in extreme poverty, Rene didn’t dare dream that he could have a different life. Then someone [...]

It is no secret that my favorite, in the Britain’s Got Talent competition this year, was Faryl Smith. I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again–the girl has more than talent; she’s got soul. The public did not vote her number one, but Faryl will do well regardless. She will soon be signed with a [...]

For those of you who are missing out on the 17-year circada party, here is a link to a story and photo from the (Louisville, KY) Courier Journal.
And, for your listening pleasure, a YouTube (thank you greyseal33) with audio. There’s really nothing much to see here…they are just big bugs…but the sound is unreal, loud, [...]

Two things are happening in the Southern United States this year, and I’m beginning to wonder if they may be related. I don’t find any reference to it in my searches, but it’s something that may not have yet been studied.
First, this an appointed time of the 17-year circada. The Louisville (Kentucky) Courier-Journal quotes [...]

Americans probably won’t get any solace from the U.K., but harried consumers in the United States–many of whom are stretching already thin budgets to choose between food or petroleum products (yeah, I know, sometimes they are the same thing)–can rest peacefully tonight knowing that at least their neighbors to the south are in good stead. [...]

Digital Spy forum member, Beer, took time out from his Britain’s Got Talent viewing schedule, yesterday, to consider a question that has been debated widely: What is the best sob story? Here is Beer’s list.

Kate and Gin - Gin’s my only mate and the only mate I need.
Escala - We’re always behind the scenes and [...]