Quite a bit of first responder training lately*, and even a call or two.  With every year (20 of’em now, if my math is right), I grow more grateful that…View post

As you know I publicly track my authorial errors with an Oops! tag.  Therefore I enjoyed this entry on Terry Teachout’s blog, especially since a few sharp-eyed readers have noticed…View post

For reasons I’ve written about at length in other places, I call myself a bumbling agnostic.  But I love to sing hymns.  So I resonated with this quote from a…View post

Talked to a retired sheriff’s deputy last night.  He says the key to successfully breaking up a bar brawl is to turn the siren on about a mile out and…View post

The whole family put on snowshoes and walked ’round the candlelit trails of the Beaver Creek Reserve the other night.  Hauled the two-year-old in a sled, she kept saying we…View post