Yes, January In St. Louis

Yes, January In St. Louis

January 30, 2012. Various tones of black, white and grey; that’s pretty much it for January here. Taken from the gas station on South Broadway just south of downtown as I pumped just a couple of gallons of their overpriced product....

A Bookless Library?

Bexar County, Texas, is developing a completely bookless library system. Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff is an unabashed book lover with 1,000 first editions in his private collection, but even he sees the writing on the wall. Paper books have lost their allure, and future generations may have little use for them, Wolff contends. So when...

Tumbling Through The Year

(Update: I dropped this idea not long after I started it. Just didn’t really care for the Tumblr platform) On Christmas day, I began a new blog. It’s a picture-a-day project on Tumblr; I’m going to try taking and posting one picture every single day for a year. You can find it here. I...

Quoted

Low River Levels Threaten River Commerce I was quoted in the Webster-Kirkwood Times yesterday. The writer made me seem much more eloquent than I really am....

(Too-) Good Reads

(Edit: this is a legacy post, from the days when Shoulblog was on WordPress.com. Things have changed a bit, and I no longer have the Goodreads widget discussed in the first paragraph. Instead, I keep a running list of the books I’m reading/have read on this site; to see it, click on “READING” up...

Resolutions

I’m gonna swear more in 2013. I’m going to eat more, exercise less, and simply roll myself wherever I need to go. I’m going to make darn damn sure my rights under the Berner Convention are protected. I will park myself on the couch and watch every second of every episode of The Bachelor. I will...

Same Kids, Different Trees

If ever there were a blog post that didn’t need any explanation, this would be it. Except, perhaps, to say, in order, Jim, Mike and Andrew. Merry Christmas from Shoulblog! ***** Previous Shoulblog Christmas messages: A Christmas Card (2010) “You Are Welcome Here” (2011)...

Pausing To Remember

I pause this week to remember two somber anniversaries. Twenty-five years ago today, my brother Jim passed away from complications of AIDS. And one year ago this coming Sunday, my mom died after a long fight with Alzheimer’s. As Dave Matthews sang, “I don’t mean to dwell on this dying thing…”  Really, I much...

Advice From My Father

The best advice I can ever remember receiving came from my father. I think I was probably about 14 or 15 years old, on the cusp of high school and all the changes that come with that transition. I have a mental image that he’s telling me this while he’s driving me someplace—we’re on...