S L Cunningham has worked the past several years as a teacher of English, social worker, and is presently employed as a disability advocate. He has poems and feature articles published in several small magazines and newspapers.
Whether for lack of common sense or for sheer excitement, I decided to venture off on my Sunday walk through the hiking trails of Memorial Park as a thunderstorm started to loom over me with thick, roiling black clouds. As I entered the trail head, a loud peal of thunder cracked above me. . . Read Full Story
Saturday night I went to the movies to catch Iron Man, which turned out to be much better than I had anticipated. I found that I was particularly mesmerized by Downeys performance, and thought it was one of the best action-hero flicks Ive seen in a while.
After the movie, I headed to The House of Pies for my usual patty melt with a cup of coffee and a slice of egg-custard pie for dessert. Its your typical American diner and theres nothing retro about the décor. According to the manager... Read Full Story
"War - I know it well, and the butchery of men Well I know. . . Homer, The Iliad Houston, Texas--This first day of June 2008 is turning out be a real scorcher. Its just past noon, and the temperatures at 94 degrees with a heat index of 101. In spite of the hot day were having, I head out to Memorial Park for my Sunday afternoon walk on the mountain bike trails that meander through a lush green and densely vegetated forest featuring giant loblolly pines and massive water oaks. In ... Read Full Story
Two natural disasters within two weeks in the southeast region of the world have been keeping the nightly news buzzing with the latest death counts. The May 3rd cyclone that slammed into Myanmar is now said to have a death count of 137,000 or more, and the latest death count from the recent earthquake in China is not at 57,000 or more. Considering that it’s only been two and half years since the Asian Tsunami that claimed over 200,000 people, that region of the world has exper... Read Full Story
Since I signed up with Netflix a few years back, I have been renting TV shows that were popular during the time I was growing up, which would've been the late fifties and early sixties. So far Ive managed to view the entire series of The Rifleman, Combat, and Route 66. For my next series, I rented The Best of Bonanza, Vol. 1. Of the episodes watched so far, The Saga of Annie OToole had a scene with Adam and Annie opening a restaurant, and the scent of her cooking wafting thro... Read Full Story
According to Gene Norman, the weather guy on Channel 11 here in Houston, these past few days have been unusually warm and humid. As he says, The muggies are back! Compared to Maine where I lived before moving here two years ago, muggies are not too hard to take, especially with temperatures near ninety during the day and low seventies during the night.
Most of my neighbors in the apartment complex where I live have had their AC's cranking at full force, but I leave mine off and inste... Read Full Story
Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one is called "Unburned Pieces of the Mind". Here you can find fresh voices and respond in real time. Some members write articles about recent news and trends related to the wikizine's topic, others recount relevant personal stories or share their favorite pictures and video clips. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this wikizine? Well, then put on your journalist's c... Read Full Story
