As you know from holiday post-cards, I spent time recently with Emily and Joe in Salt Lake City. They were full, rich, activating days and I’m still sorting through the many gifts I received. The immensity of the mountains in … [Continue reading]
The past month has been challenging here, so a more meditative post today: a retreat into relative quiet after what has felt like too much noise. Wally has been sick since I travelled to New England for a grade school class reunion more … [Continue reading]
It’s been another week of bad news. I got to watch the Phillies lose to the Diamond Backs in the last two games of the National League Championship Series and it had me re-living my own years playing baseball and, more soulfully, about what … [Continue reading]
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve written about some of the better escapes I’ve been enjoying in posts about “shoe gaze” music and “gourmet cheeseburger” TV, but after having these experiences and telling others about them, I always … [Continue reading]
When you’ve lived in a place a long time, you accumulate.There are all kinds of reasons for valuing something enough that you’ve kept it around. But one downside of this was revealed to me last winter when relatively warm days were followed by a … [Continue reading]
