My name is Jim Rain. I’m old, but getting younger. I make tortillas. I’m a Christian. And a fifth-generation Texan (Dallas variety). The foregoing is not necessarily presented in order of importance.

This site is mostly for me – it’s my electronic diary and photo album. But I hope anyone who stumbles in here might enjoy these posts.

I do urge you to take a look at the Commonplace Book page; it’s a compilation of statements that I don’t want to forget, said or written by folks wiser than I am. They resonate with me, and they might do the same for you. The Poems, Pictures page is similar to an earlier incarnation of this blog that was just, uh, poems and pictures.

P.S. “Mumby Road” is from Flanders & Swann’s wonderful song, “The Slow Train”.