CBWC: Trains or Train Tracks All photographs by Owen Kraus The train still runs. It can’t exceed 5 mph because the tracks are not up to the task. The train doesn’t really go anywhere. It used to go to all the… Read More ›
Transportation
BEAM ME SOMEWHERE
As airlines make traveling by air increasingly miserable, unfriendly, and physically uncomfortable, those of us who yearn to travel but abhor airports and airplanes have been waiting for teleportation. You know. “Scotty, beam me up” and off you go to… Read More ›
PEOPLE MOVERS
CBWC: People Movers This is one of the areas where I don’t have as many pictures as others. I’m not even sure why I don’t but there it is.
WAITING AT THE GATE
And here we are. At Delta gate C5 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The flight is two hours late — so far. Delta has been a mess and not just for us. Pretty much for everyone. Late flights, cancelled flights, broken connecting… Read More ›
RUSTED METAL AND MORE
CFFC: Metal From pots and pans to giant metal structures in an endlessly growing city, metal is everywhere. Old and new, shiny and raw, it’s wherever you look and many places you never thought to look.
THE BIG ONE: THE BLIZZARD OF 1978 – by GARRY ARMSTRONG
This is the time of year when big snowstorms hit this region. Forty-three years ago, a gigantic winter storm began moving into eastern Massachusetts. On the afternoon of Feb. 6, 1978, thousands of people were let out of work early… Read More ›
QUICKLY BEST FRIENDS
It has nothing to do with hooking up or any other kind of sex. It has to do with becoming the closest of friends with a complete stranger for one afternoon, then never seeing him or her again. One year,… Read More ›
WHERE’S MY STUFF, PART TWO – RICH PASCHALL
The Workforce Dilemma, by Rich Paschall If you were following the national news at all last year, you may have noticed that Secretary Of Transportation Pete Buttigieg (aka Mayor Pete), was traveling the country promoting the infrastructure bill. He spent… Read More ›
THE SUPPLY CHAIN DILEMMA
Where’s My Stuff? By Rich Paschall You may have been reading or hearing a lot about the supply chain problem. Politicians and business leaders are doing a lot of hand wringing and posturing these days about slow deliveries. While they… Read More ›
FIVE THINGS I DON’T MISS ABOUT COMMUTING
5 Things that you miss about your daily commute. I contemplated leaving this page blank because there is nothing I miss about commuting. I did tens of thousands of miles of long distance commuting. Audiobooks were an outgrowth of the… Read More ›
DELIVERING THE GOODS
We have already spent a lot of time talking about USPS and voting and all that, but we haven’t gotten to our favorite amusing anecdotes about UPS and Fedex. Each has its own cute and funny methods or not getting… Read More ›
WHERE’S MY STUFF? – Marilyn Armstrong and Rich Paschall
I know this isn’t the sexiest subject on the Internet, but this morning, I had to explain to my furniture store from whom — at the beginning of June — we ordered a new loveseat. The one we sit in… Read More ›
CURSE OF THE LEISURE CLASS.
Once upon a time in a life long ago, I worked hard. I don’t know if you could call it overworked. I never felt I had more work than I could do — if only they would let me get… Read More ›
SENDING AND RECEIVING STUFF – RICH PASCHALL
The Supply Chain and You – Rich Paschall This is about more than the amount of toilet paper you can get the next time you go shopping if you can get any at all. This is about all the other… Read More ›
START YOUR ENGINES PLEASE! – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Anything with a Motor or Engine I probably have a lot of engines in my folders, but they are all in folders by month and year, which makes locating them pretty difficult. I do, however,… Read More ›
BEST FRIENDS FOR AN AFTERNOON – Marilyn Armstrong
It has nothing to do with hooking up or any other kind of sex. It has to do with becoming the closest of friends with a complete stranger for one afternoon, then never seeing him or her again. One year,… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 