So over a year ago my wife and her cousin began planning their grandmother’s 100th birthday party. That’s a tricky thing, you know. And the closer it got…I have been…View post

Kids have been lately mowing* down on these. *Is the phrase “mowing down” colloquial? We pronounce it “mow” like “ow!” not “mow” like “mowing the grass.”

Good 4th last night. Sat on our ridge with a fire and 70% homegrown food (have never successfully grown marshmallows), just enough breeze and woodsmoke to keep the mosquitoes and…View post

She’s back in the house now, along with the purple bear she calls Star-Bottom.* The table was made in the 1940s by my grandfather for my father. I think his…View post

Last night while doing dishes I am listening to an audiobook version of Will Durant’s The Story of Philosophy: the Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers. (I have been…View post