Memphasis > A Great Zoo. A Great Embarrassment.
December 10th, 2015
IF YOU CAN PARK A HIPPO, YOU CAN PARK AN SUV. “Finally,” the young TV reporter said, “somebody who’s happy with the zoo.” The zoo’s general manager was involved in controversy, his vision in question. The reporter found plenty of people at the zoo gate ready to feed the GM to the lions, but Nora and I were the first he talked to who ...
Memphasis > Knee-Jerk Outbreak
December 3rd, 2015
A SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS WASHINGTON, D.C. The United States government has mobilized against a clear threat to the country. Troops have been sent to identify and capture members of an ersatz government openly operating here in defiance of federal law. This group claims theirs as the only true religion, and that laws be based on it as prescribed in the tome of that ...
Memphasis > Ginkgos And Thanks. And Thanks Again.
November 26th, 2015
LOOK FOR THE WONDER. REPEAT. I write about it every year. And it’s happened again. Right outside my window is a ginkgo tree, and another on the other side of the house. Every fall they engage in an ancient mating dance, a spectacular competition for attention. So exhausting is the effort, it doesn’t last long. So intense is the result, it’s explosive.
Memphasis > Angels Of Our Better Nature
November 19th, 2015
SPIRITS OF A CITY. Emily Sutton and Annie Cook were prostitutes. And angels. “The providence of her Judge, her God,” states the Elmwood monument of Emily Sutton – also infamously known as Fannie Walker – who died selflessly nursing the sick during the yellow fever epidemic of 1873. Annie Cook was so well known that the city directory officially ...
Memphasis > Billions And Billions Of Grins
November 12th, 2015
GOOD NEWS IS GROWING. Really. I only have 500 words here and what my friend Andy Cates had to say last week is worth far more, several billion dollars worth actually, and what St. Jude had to say at the end of the week adds billions more. Andy – managing member of Value Acquisition Fund and general partner and CEO of RVC Outdoor Destinations – made ...
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