pat loughery

I just finished watching a fantastic documentary that I want to recommend to you. http://bicycledreamsmovie.com/is a story about the Race Across America or RAAM. This is a bicycle race from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast, first rider in wins. This year’s race was San Diego to Atlantic City, 3100…

Faithful readers of this site know that I haven’t written much in the last couple of years.  There’s a lot of reasons for that, and I’m pretty sure I’ve even written about it before.  Intense grad school work, job shifts, young kids and a variety of other interests have kept…

Tonight was the Home Opener for the Seattle Mariners. The game itself was a fiasco, but the organization honored the legendary broadcaster Dave Niehaus, which was fantastic.   Local hip-hop artist Macklemore, with Ryan Lewis, performed their tribute to Dave. It isnt my favorite cut by Macklemore, but the heart…

Sharp-eyed folk may have noticed a small title change in this blog.   What used to be In the Coracle has now become In the Currach.   Why?  When I named this thing In the Coracle, I was deep in transition, living in the fog of in-between, and also deeply…

The “Christian” rhetoric around politics has been shameful on BOTH sides of the national debate for a long while.   I have no idea if the above image, posted to the Palin PAC website, had any influence on the gunman who today shot Representative Giffords, targeted in this image.  But…

After nuking and re-importing the content for this blog last summer to recover from a nasty hacker attack, I never quite got around to rebuilding my links list. Today I did, but I’m warning you: It’s just a full import of all the stuff I have nicely organized in my…