December 2, 2016• Uncategorized
My poor grandson has developed the same thing his poor mother, my daughter, had, and it sucks. My daughter had childhood asthma that lasted...
November 30, 2016• Uncategorized
Once upon a time, a lovely couple my wife and I know—let’s call them Brian and Kathy because, you know, that’s who they...
November 29, 2016• Uncategorized
And now, a short piece composed entirely of sentences and phrases of e-mail subject lines of spam messages I’ve actually received. No...
November 16, 2016• Uncategorized
So today I played a round of golf with three very pleasant guys. (I played horribly. I think maybe I was going back too far in the...
November 9, 2016• Just Me
Donald Trump, a despicable human being, won the presidential election last night, and I am scared out of my mind about what he might do....
October 25, 2016• Uncategorized
Okay, I admit it. I have no clue how Rock, Paper, Scissors works. I mean, I know Scissors beats Paper. It can cut paper, so it wins. But...
October 18, 2016• Writing
My first two weeks of retirement have been spent partly getting used to being retired and mostly working around the house, doing a bunch of...
October 4, 2016• Uncategorized
There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want. — Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes I’ve been hugely fortunate in my...
November 25, 2015• Uncategorized
I was one of millions of Baby Boomers who entered the 60s as unknowing, benign peasants and who emerged a decade or so later changed in...
May 10, 2015• Uncategorized
Florida deputy stops black man on bike, shoots him 4 seconds later South Carolina police officer charged with murder after shooting man...
March 10, 2015• Uncategorized
So I’m standing in the middle of right field with two outs in the last inning of a Little League game that we were actually —...
February 1, 2015• Uncategorized
I remember a kid back in high school who was an amazing basketball player and a sometimes hellion. The kid and I went to high school here....
October 28, 2014• Uncategorized
My darling wife recently bought me a Moto 360 smart watch because, well, because she’s an amazing woman. I gotta tell ya, I love this...
September 29, 2014• Uncategorized
Funny thing, golf. Four hours or so of ecstasy and agony interspersed with exclamations along the lines of: Dammit! Ooh, that’ll...
July 24, 2014• Uncategorized
She has been dead a long time, my mother, more than a quarter century, and I still think of her often. Certain sights, songs, and sounds...
July 14, 2014• Uncategorized
Oh, how Wolfie loved an open briefcase. We had to put a pet down recently, a horrible event under the best of circumstances. Wolfgang, or...
May 9, 2014• Uncategorized
You can see the Pittsburgh skyline from Ollie’s room. It’s quite lovely in the evening, your eyes scanning the row home...
April 20, 2014• Uncategorized
I cannot tell you how many times over the years I’ve called myself an idiot. Gotta be in the gazillions, fer sure. I open the wrong...
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