Millions of words via this thing and finally I managed to souse it with sufficient coffee to disrupt the circuitry. Odds of it working again are desperately slim, on a…View post

My nearly-teenaged niece was visiting my nearly-teenaged daughter this weekend. Much girly giggling in the living room while everyone was getting ready for church. I had just showered after chicken…View post

We’d been there all day, chasing kids, playing in the surf, dancing around jellyfish… Told my brother-in-law (mi cunado) I needed “five minutes” and when I woke up the sun…View post

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