Suprise Me

If you are someone who disliked gym, join me on a little fantasy trip. You arrive at high school for the first day of your junior year. Looking across the street from the school entrance toward the gym building, you see … a pile of rubble! The gym building stands no more. Is this just… Read More

It was dark, dark, dark, for days, and the bad air made walking outside impossible for nearly six weeks. And BAM, I was clobbered by SAD symptoms--in the middle of summer. Read More

The thrill of the hunt, the lure of the new. No, I’m talking about shopping. Read More

Trump signs are thankfully MIA, and Biden signs are relatively rare, since this preference is assumed. Read More

From 1985-2000 I was rarely without my diaper bag. There was only one time in all those years that I took a trip and forgot it. Read More

There is no future reward after caring for an elderly person. Our best efforts end in death. Read More

Joe's hat sported not only a Nixon-Agnew campaign button but, beside it, a Goldwater button from four years earlier. Read More

Not only do I still have all the original albums, I still have the fan magazines. Read More

Though Michigan is thought of as an industrial state due to its automative industry, dating back to the beginning of the 20th century, it has a long agricultural history as well, with dairy farms in the middle of the state, and lots of cherry orchards around the Grand Traverse peninsula on Lake Michigan, more than… Read More

After two warm days, January 18, 2001 was cold and sunny, prompting everything that had previously melted to freeze again. I had a morning meeting at the Rose Art Museum in Waltham, followed by lunch with an old friend who had moved to San Diego long ago, so I dressed nicely, even wearing my mink… Read More