The National Weather Service interrupted NPR News to threaten baseball-sized hail, driving me from my plans to grill outside to an indoor, stove-top approach to my culinary pursuits last night. […]
I turned down Poppleton Avenue and I was delighted to see that the trees were in bloom. Different people have, over time, told me different things regarding the varietal of […]
I didn’t realize it until the query was raised, but the last time I went fishing was in 2012, over Labor Day weekend. For a kid who grew up spending […]
Sonja and I had postponed our dinner at V. Mertz, our favorite restaurant, for another week. My birthday, long since passed sans pomp, sans circumstance, there was no sense of […]
It’s utterly amazing to me how many milestones one hits in a year, how much goes by, how easy it is to take it all for granted. Yesterday, I was […]
Three or four days ago, on April 19, a magnitude 3.3 earthquake hit North Platte, Nebraska (you can almost hear my readers in California roll their eyes, can’t you?). When […]
Dear Zooey, You turned one year old today, or, at least, we celebrated that milestone, today being a Saturday and your actual birthday being on a Tuesday. Before you get […]
It’s Friday, early afternoon, and I’m prostrate in bed, wheezing, aching, coughing, and sniffling. This, perhaps by way of apology for my prolonged hiatus from blogging, though believe me I […]
I’ve been publishing more poetry lately, something I used to thrive on and enjoy, yet somewhere along the line stopped doing for a spell. This year, I’ve published seven or […]
Ten years ago, I helped to put on a conference in Kigali, Rwanda, for the first time. It was intense, with many of the logistics being handled on the fly, […]
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