A Prairie Home Companion

twang, it became quite evident to me that my parents were a little different. When I would leave the ball games the theme of the car ride depended wholly on who I was with. Supposing I rode with a friend, nine times out of ten, that twenty minutes home was filled…

Popular mythology depicts cowboys crooning soft lullabies to cattle on open ranges, singing old familiar songs and hymns, or creating new songs or verses to existing songs in the long dark hours of the night. While this image is highly romanticized, the association between music and the cowboy is not entirely unfounded. For cowboys, recollections from actual workers or witnesses have been recorded long before singing became a profession, recorded, or played on the radio and film because…

I was introduced to my Messiah, Jesus Christ on April 10,1977 at Prairie Creek Baptist Church in Plano, Texas. The key text for the sermon that Sunday morning was from Revelation 3:20, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.” In a picture in my mind I could see Jesus with His arms open wide, inviting me to be His child. As the congregation sang the hymn, “Just as I am”, I walked down the aisle…

This area was the setting of nearly all of his fiction. He has described The Floating Opera as a "nihilist comedy," and its companion piece, The End of the Road, as a "nihilist catastrophe" (Werlock). Nihilism is a philosophical doctrine that suggests the negation of one or more alleged meaningful aspects of life. Both novels express doubts about intrinsic meaning (or natural meaning)…

American poet Billy Collins (born 1941) has worked to craft a poetic art that is accessible without being sentimental or crass. Named poet laureate of the United States in 2001, Collins became the public face of American poetry and embarked on an ambitious effort to insert poetry--not the teaching of poetry so much as the raw material of poems themselves--into American secondary schools. His own books have enjoyed a rare combination of popular and critical success, selling tens of thousands of…

Contents [hide] * 1 Etymology and related terminology * 2 Taxonomy * 3 History and evolution * 3.1 DNA studies * 4 Roles with humans * 4.1 Early roles * 4.2 As pets * 4.3 Work * 4.4 Sports and shows * 4.5 As a food source * 4.6 Health risks to humans * 4.7 Health benefits for humans * 4.8 Shelters * 5 Biology * 5.1 Senses * 5.1.1 Vision * 5.1.2 Hearing…

Sink with a great many gallons of Colorado River water, empowering ranches and depends on spring up adjacent. The ocean's rising saltiness soon made it difficult to utilize its water to inundate crops, and discontinuous flooding submerged motels and homes. Misrach's photo stands up to the spooky stays of a surrendered resort town, where an unfilled swimming pool brings out the amusements of a devastated…