Archive for the ‘Nature Events’ Category

Around the World in 80 Days or Around the USA in 30

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

Have you always wanted to travel around the country? I have married friends – one a secretary and the other a director of a professional association – who both decided to learn how to drive tractor trailer rigs a number of years ago. Their goal was to retire and to go on the road as […]

Shake, Rattle and Roll or Waiting in the Car Line

Friday, January 5th, 2007

Have you ever waited in a car line to pick up children, get gas, wait on an ATM machine, or sit at a drive through restaurant waiting for the cars in front of you to get their food? Perhaps you’re one of those who got stuck on the interstate and just had to make the […]

Carolina in my Mind

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

As Thanksgiving approaches rapidly the song – Carolina in My Mind – is racing around inside my head. I think it may have started when I went to the James Taylor concert recently. It was one of the last songs he sang. In the song, James says he thinks he hears the highway calling and […]

Back in Your Own Back Yard

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

There’s a song from the 1920’s Al Jolsen penned and sang. Al was called one of the greatest entertainers of them all. He was the first person to sing a song in talking pictures. The song, Back in Your Own Back Yard, tells about a bird that flies away, sees the world, and realizes that […]

Get a Little Mud on the Tires

Friday, November 10th, 2006

There’s this country song about a man who bought a new truck. He invited his girl to go break it in by “getting a little mud on the tires.” I’ve been driving up and down a dirt road in the country these past few days and thought of that song. Because it rained pretty hard […]