Suprise Me

Seeing the documentary movie version the summer of 1970 shaped my Woodstock experience. Read More

exploring chauvinism felt like tumbling through surf Read More

When I started thinking about this prompt, I started a list of all the reasons I had to be grateful, and soon found there was a true embarrassment of riches.  When stacked up next to myriad reasons to be dismayed, angry, and depressed, an old saying came to mind: “I guess a man (sic) is… Read More

What a strange and terrible time to feel at one with the universe. Read More

Why exactly did we need the hats? Read More

The movie Marathon Man was released in 1976 and Laurence Olivier played the part of Szell a former WWII Nazi German enroute to New York City from South America to recover some stolen and previously hidden diamonds. Dustin Hoffman plays the part of Thomas Babington brother to a US secret agent and who unwittingly gets… Read More

I've always dreamed in color. Colors that I've never seen in nature appear in my dreams. Read More

I, in the throes of the Dunning-Kruger Effect*, decided that it was obviously the bike that was blocking my path to Über-ridership. Read More

I had a vague familiarity with the digeridoo and some of the paintings. What to expect? Read More

I come from Detroit. My family was in the automotive industry. My great uncle, Meyer Prentis (Uncle Meyer) was the Treasurer of General Motors when it was the largest corporation in the world. My dad’s oldest brother was it’s comptroller. My dad worked for the Chevrolet division in Flint, MI before WWII, but upon returning from… Read More