I rose early yesterday, wrote, and went to the chiropractor before going to Menard’s to pick up lumber and cement. I spent the morning working with DJ, who I hired […]

There’s something a little comforting about the occasional rare evening when Sonja is out of town and yet I somehow manage to collect the kids from daycare and feed them […]

I got home from my last meeting of the day and joined the family for dinner in the kitchen. Sonja had made pasta with broccoli and meatballs, and I was […]

I can remember from my youth an aging man in a cardigan sweater singing “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Won’t you be […]

After almost two months of off-again on-again training, halted frequently by the reemergence of a partial tear in my right calf, I got through the last week of training without […]

Outside our home, through the lead-crossed windows, each spring I watch the lone, scraggly tree in my neighbor’s yard blossom into an explosion of gorgeous lavender-purple. The neighbors in that […]

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. […]

Lately, I’ve balanced in my mind a somewhat curious juxtaposition of values and desires. My love of and desire to travel has been vigorously reignited, and this year promises to […]

The erratic weather of Nebraska has of late included snows in April, and promises to do so again this weekend, making yesterday’s high sixty degree temps a commodity not to […]

We told Titus and Zooey that we were getting a piano, and we were pleased to hear Titus say “I’m going to play the piano.” That is the idea. Over […]