My Friday ramble on earthquakes and calamity
This poor little blog is a little dusty and neglected. Well, at least post-wise. It's always fun to gussy it up and make it look pretty, but another story to try and find something to write about. I don't like to blog about boring things. Although things I may find boring are interesting to other people. Ramble, ramble -- that's how I feel on this Friday night. I've been following the quake/tsunami in Japan and I find myself glued to the set. I rarely sit down and devour the news channels, but bring on a natural disaster and you can't tear me away. Why are we drawn to the bad stuff? There's no rhyme or reason to it. I can tell you exactly where I was when I heard about 9/11. I was folding towels on my living room floor. The kids were at school, so I was able to watch the coverage all day without interruption. It was riveting. Going back even farther, I recall watching the war as it raged in Iraq back i...
