Category Archives: Personal history

Second Return from Austin

Posted on Monday 10 June 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

More executor fun over the past few days. I and my partner and his son and son’s wife spent a long hot weekend in Austin going through Larry’s house, meeting an estate seller and a realtor and a neighbor, and … Continue reading →

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Busy Busy Busy; the Duties of an Executor

Posted on Friday 31 May 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

This week has been busy with medical procedures and doctor’s appointments, all part of that ‘third birthday’ I discussed two days ago. Tuesday: draws for extensive blood-work, at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center on Ashby in Berkeley (photo above), followed … Continue reading →

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Third Birthday

Posted on Wednesday 29 May 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

Third ‘birthday’; Why American Christians support Israel; More polarities and correlations for my chart; Examples, just from recent days, about Republican ambitions to turn back history; More examples of Christian indoctrination. This week is the third anniversary of my heart … Continue reading →

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Estate Matters

Posted on Thursday 9 May 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

Busy with estate matters today. It’s not easy being an executor. So many things to take care of. People who do not respond to your emails. One pic for today, almost full-sized, of books he left behind.

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Photos from Austin

Posted on Saturday 4 May 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

I’ll post these without explanation, for now.

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Our Trip to Austin

Posted on Monday 29 April 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

Notes about our trip to Austin this past weekend, to visit and begin to settle the house and estate of my old friend Larry Kramer, who died last September. We flew to Austin Thursday, from Oakland via LAX; spent all … Continue reading →

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How Rugged Individualists Cannot Solve Global Problems

Posted on Wednesday 24 April 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

A note about my trip tomorrow to Austin; How Mike Johnson characterizes Republicans as “rugged individualists,” yet who can still not get along to solve actual problems; How Trump’s policies would increase inflation, and his fans haven’t noticed; More about … Continue reading →

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Somber News

Posted on Tuesday 23 April 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

I don’t want to make this too personal, or reveal too much personal information. Just to convey a lesson. Six months ago now, I announced that an old friend of mine, Larry Kramer, who’d moved to Texas in 2006 and … Continue reading →

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The poorly educated and the “cognishly umpired”

Posted on Monday 15 April 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

A Tom Gauld cartoon illustrating tribalism — “Our Blessed Homeland” vs. “Their Barbarous Wastes”; Anti-woke teachers in public schools; Abrahm Lustgarten on the American climate migration (which applies to the wider world, of course); More from John Gartner about Trump’s … Continue reading →

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Slouching

Posted on Sunday 14 April 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

Fascinating piece about a new book Slouch, about the curious preoccupation with posture, at least in America; Short items about Trump’s dumb attorneys; Christian rallies against the LGBTQs; why Trump’s “Christian Visibility Day” illustrates Christians’ persecution complex; and that traffic … Continue reading →

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