I’ve been writing this blog every morning for less than a month. At this point, it hasn’t been a marathon yet…more like one of the half mile races I used to attack with mediocrity….going into the final curve….sucking wind … Continue reading
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Six days a week, I make the same lunch and carry it to work. I know that the chips are in the basket on top of the refrigerator, the juice is in the door of the refrigerator, the cold pack … Continue reading
One of the best things I think we’ve been able to give our children is the experience of seeing that there’s something else on the other side of the fence. Our road trips, whether across the country…down and back again….or … Continue reading
When I see my wife sitting at our computer….and then I hear her say, “WHAT’S THIS?!!! WHAT IS THIS?!!!” ….I know something is up. Unless I’ve visited some site featuring illegal, filmed with a webcam in a Chinese or Russian … Continue reading
I’ve been playing guitar almost as long as I have known how to use a fork. You would think that I’d be a lot better guitar player than I am after 37 years…you’d think I’d be a gourmand after 50 … Continue reading
In the 1970’s, there was a slew of books about owner built, funky, human scale houses. Everything was geared to reflect the personality and spirit of the builder…and the builders of these homes were not hobbled by normal constraints like … Continue reading
There is an old story about a fellow who went to a small town with the thought of moving his family there. “What kind of people live around here?” he asked the attendant at the local gas station. “Well,” the … Continue reading
Dolly Freed, future rocket scientist and 17 year old possibility thinker, wrote and published this book about living off the land and living her own way in 1978…so I guess that means that “Dolly Freed” (a pseudonym) was “green” before … Continue reading
I spent a lot of years thinking that the first song that David Byrne wrote, “Psycho Killer”, was the result of his inability to successfully imitate Alice Cooper. Something so quirky and original was , in my mind at least, … Continue reading
…and my window won’t go up. Snooki had a baby. Why and how I know who and what Snooki is is a mystery…the melange of valid and trivial information floating around in my head is strange…total devastation in the Northeast … Continue reading