Dead Reckoning

This Web log is not easy to navigate and has no dedicated search function. That seems like a throwaway philosophy, but since I’m in my 15th year at this….  While I can’t make it searchable, I can create an index of sorts. So, this is a listing of all past entries and links to them. Order is chronological from the beginning.

The Uppity Course [12/11/09] A little explanation of what this is all about. In academic terms, “required reading.”

Book Review [12/12/09] Prison Transformations.

Afraid of Ourselves? [12/15/09]  The challenges of solitude.

A Mouse That Soared [12/19/09] Perhaps death is just transformation.

The Heart of Childhood [12/23/09] What is this thing called Christmas?

Jerry Has a Neighbor [12/31/09] New Year transformations.

Leave Things  Be [1/03/10] Be still, and know…

A Dark Side? [1/9/10] Naive perceptions?

The Child’s Mind [1/13/10] Perceptions of children.

A Generation to End All Generations? [1/19/10] The myth of the “greatest generation.”

Web Log As Family History [1/22/10] Family heritage in the Internet world.

Enduring Mysteries [1/27/10] Questions without answers.

Oh, Grow Up! [1/30/10] Children pretending to be adults.

Irritatingly Right [2/4/10] The wonder of Ammon Hennacy.

Happy Birthday? [2/7/10] Boy Scout values.

Transforming Power [2/14/10] The power within.

Wise Elder or Old Fogy? [2/18/10] Respecting life and food.

Cong or Hippies? Choices We Give Our Young [2/23/10] Deciding to go to war.

Truth Will Set Us Free [3/5/10] How not to live a lie.

The Families of Mudville [3/12/10] Baseball is a family thing.

Don’t Mess with God Walmart [3/20/10] Power and fear encounter immaturity.

Useful in Time [3/31/10] Review, This Book Is Overdue! by Marilyn Johnson.

Death or Potatoes? A TEA Party [4/17/10] What a TEA Party event really looks like.

TEA Faces [4/21/10] Faces of people politically aroused.

Hold the Cheese, Please [4/28/10] Prisons, the quick and easy answer when we don’t care enough.

And How Are the Children? [5/15/10] We slaughter children in our streets instead of protecting them.

Bedpans for Blumenthal [5/31/10] A Connecticut politician soils himself.

Good, and Good for You [6/6/10] A farmer’s market in Angels Camp, CA.

BP Is Us [6/30/10] We soil our earthly home.

Parents, Not Pigs [7/27/10] Corporation exploits children, families and animals.

The Old Country [8/23/10 We nurtured out youth in the fifties; today we brutalize them.

August Sun [8/30/10] Castles, hurricanes, gatherings — and other time warps define summer’s waning days.

The Road to Twisted [9/18/10] A local winery provides one of California’s best little road trips.

Not Your Father’s Car Show [9/28/10] Wow, a local winery uses cars to take us back to more beautiful times.

October Splendor [10/3/10] The very best month, hands down. Here’s why.

Faith. Hope. Success? [10/24/10] The California Department of Corrections and not Rehabilitation FINALLY tells families where they hide prisoners.

That Girl Next Door [11/10/10] Perhaps the oldest remaining one-room schoolhouses in California — right here!

Got Hunch? [11/30/10] What ever happened to a healthy uncertainty?

How History Gets Distorted [12/20/10] The good news story in a bad place; it should be told.

The Real George Bailey [12/24/10] A good man among us.

Guns Or Children — Which Do You Love? [2/9/11] How do we end the addiction to handguns?

My Name Is [3/14/11] The joy of dance!

The Johnstone Matter: The Improbable Case of a Public Enigma [5/14/11]  The overlooked heart of the Golden Age of Radio.

The Most Perfect Day in the World [6/27/11] What was your most perfect day?

Wonder and Recollection [9/14/11] Two roads diverged…I could not travel both.

Dignity and Witness and Occupy [10/20/11]  The resistance occupies our psyche.

Taken From Us? [11/10/11]  Death will not take our loved ones from us if we keep their memories alive.

Takin’ It to the Streets [5/20/12] Annual street fair (cars, crafts, cycles and folks) in Mount Ephraim, NJ.

I Never Went Back [5/20/12] Meet a stranger, and find out where God is not.

Shoot Me, Instead [9/12/12] Leave the young innocents to live their lives — if you must shoot, shoot me instead. Gun slaughter is now in our national character.

Lusting for Murder [10/22/12] Trashy newspaper writing exploits death in Camden, NJ.

Joy to the World [12/24/12] Easy to say, but what is joy, really — and where do you find it?

Tossing the Garden Out of the Garden State [2/16/13] Tragic irony as the “Garden State” of New Jersey kills the beautiful Camden Children’s Garden.

PTSD and Potatoes [2/19/13] How do you deal with Potato Traumatic Stress Disorder?

At the Plantation Door [2/22/13] Misunderstood street demonstration in Philadelphia, PA.

Reach Ruin, or Not? [3/1/13] Art criticism?

Broken Dreams at My Window [5/23/13] The heartbreak of people watching.

We Lost Our Darlin’ [8/2/13] Marjorie Edwyna Tracy

The Johnstone Enigma Redux [9/17/13] Old Time Radio pioneer.

Dirty Politics vs the Jersey Devil [12/8/13] A gas pipeline in the protected pinelands?

Texas Owns New Jersey [12/23/13] Texas corruption in the Garden State?

Spring, It’s Here If You Look [2/23/14] Early springtime?

Casualties of War — The Home Front [5/25/14] Honoring War Deaths at Home.

Where I Have to Go [7/8/14] I guess I just miss my friends.

The Forbidden Screen Door [9/30/14] Kung Fu does suicide?

Beauty and the Beast [10/13/14] A flower brutalized.

Food Fights [11/26/14] Food is fundamentally political.

Hawaii? Or Something Else? [2/13/15] A road trip?

A Sun Sets On Joe’s Pillow [5/20/15] Jane Elizabeth goes to spirit.

Motherless Child, Sometimes [6/9/15] A generation passes, a world vanishes.

A Final Term Paper [6/24/15] Eddy Dow, joy to thee O death

Back In the World, Killing Softly [11/10/15] A band on a boat.

Thanksgiving, Resolved [11/28/15] A guilty and mystical remembrance.

The Court Martial of a Crossing Guard [2/8/16] Good sense and safety don’t respect chain of command.

Camera Clicks — A Celebration of Hope [2/15/16] When creativity clicks.

Weapons of Privilege [2/29/16] “…not a nigger in the whole county,” he said!

A Pen Show? Really? [5/4/16] The cult of stationery.

Hole in the Ground. Hole in the Heart [8/15/16] Emotions of a past life.

Do I Know You? [8/19/16] The family “reunion” experience.

A Washerwoman Among Us [9/28/16] Guilt and forgiveness.

Armistice Day [11/11/16] Searching for a promised peace.

Disinterring the Good [11/20/16] Learning about integrity.

Grace and Gratitude [11/24/16] What makes Thanksgiving?

Collections [3/26/17] Getting the money back!

Baptism at Bargaintown Pond [5/3/17] A new life begins.

Do Jobs Matter Anymore? [7/20/17] How do you make a life in the “gig economy”?

Can Lincoln Save Us, Again? [8/16/17] Apparently, the U.S. Civil War is just in pause.

Reality — at a Distance [11/1/17] I find the “Willoughby” of Twilight Zone

The Record Shop [11/13/17] My friend, Joe, lives his best life.

Girls and Boys and White Christmas [12/23/17] White Christmas not all it’s cracked up to be.

Pararis and MLUC [3/21/18] Shaken stones of the psyche.

A Nation Addicted to War [11/11/18] The most warlike nation in the history of the world.

As Much a Father… [2/1/19] A man I loved.

The Haunted Photographer [4/9/19] Where are they now?

Memorial Day, 2019 [5/27/19] Remembering Anthony Dixon

Eleven Sisters of a Lost Family [6/3/19] What about my family?

Dignity in Work [1/27/20] Wisdom at the pizza shop.

Sick for Profit [3/26/20] The disease of health care in the U.S.A.

The Tyranny of Mediocre Men [6/12/20] The stomach-turning weakness of a deviant lap dog.

What Did You Do in Prison, Daddy? [6/14/20] A prison of our own making.

New Year’s Eve [12/31/20] The splintered glass of New Years’ passed.

Come, Let’s Play [3/23/21] Life can be both intense and fun!

You Bet Your Life — Mass Medicine [4/11/21] Pandemic madness.

That Extra Day [7/29/21] The year that changed everything, 1968.

Life Interrupted [8/13/21] Maybe “normal” wasn’t so normal.

Above Us, Only Sky? [9/15/21] The strange world of “retirement.”

A Connecticut Yankee in Maryland [9/21/21] A Tracy family history.

Playing Anything We Feel Like! [4/19/22] Broadcast radio in the city of Ben Franklin.

Willie Nelson, Thanks &  Farewell? [5/2/22] Willie’s last album?

What Would Miss Tracy Say? [5/27/22] What would a celebrated teacher from 100 years ago think of mass murder in the classroom?

Honor the Father [6/15/22] A visual tribute to Father’s Day.

Take Pictures, Make Friends [7/10/22] Bittersweet story of friends through the camera lens.

Poverty Porn [7/20/22] The business of making money off depraved poverty.

Living Love [8/17/22] I meet the product of love in the supermarket checkout.

Lessons of History [9/10/22] A proposed Constitutional Amendment could have put the people in charge of declaring war.

My Eyes Only [9/29/22] What if I didn’t create photographic images?

God GUN, Save Us [10/26/22] Gun violence is the human sacrifice we offer to our God, the sacred GUN.

Patti Smith and I, Going Steady? [11/7/22] Is Patti Smith my soulmate???

Sometimes, There’s a Man [11/21/22] A master auto technician shares $5000 of his good fortune.

Holly Folly Christmas [12/25/22] Who chops down a holly tree at Christmas?

Love One Another? [2/3/23] Is prison really the way we love our fellow man?

The Measure of Mother [5/12/23] Celebrating the mothers among us.

Mottainai [7/23/23] The importance of a plastic bottle cap?

Thanksgiving in August [8/12/23] The scourge of “turkey bowling”!

What Happened to Vanilla? [9/26/23] The tragedy of ice cream.

Balance [11/10/23] Sunday morning at the supermarket, a saga.

Last Word [10/22/23] I’m done with the Wordle game.

JFK’s Last Breakfast [11/3/23] An historic tragedy in Texas.

Prosperity Upon the Land? [11/13/23] How does 2023 stack up against 1950?