Let’s say you rise from your desk with all the grace of a concussed cow and manage to flip your computer monitor on to the floor. What sort of enduring…View post

So let’s say you’re going through Montaigne’s Essays, essentially cherry-picking quotes for a magazine piece you’re working on, and you come to this passage: Like birds who fly abroad to…View post

…is not perfected yet, but it will be based on a sliding scale in which your intelligence quotient is inversely proportional to the number of times you push the button…View post

Was struck recently by how distinctly different “Big White Cloud” sounds from the rest of J.J. Cale’s work, then a couple weeks in figured out it was John, not J.J.

…was a good day. Up at 6 a.m. to write for a while, then chores.  Tried to start tractor but it wouldn’t. Got a little cranky. Wiggled things, lifted hood,…View post