In the last two days, I have met two new people from the motherland who stumbled across this site in random Internet surfing. So please welcome to the blog Randolyn from Oloh, whose son recently started a job in Albuquerque, and Alex, who is a University of New Mexico grad student from Tupelo. Randolyn wants to know how our collective hometown of Oloh, Mississippi, got its name. I have no idea. Any thoughts, Internet folk? And although Alex may not know it, his hometown calls to mind a great Emmylou Harris song called "Boy from Tupelo." Cheers to home state connections. It's not such a big world, really. I love how the Internet makes that true.