We hosted my parents and grandma and Rosie’s parents at our house for Thanksgiving. It was a wonderful day. Enough sentiment to make it memorable, enough relaxation to make it enjoyable.
Perhaps the best thing about Thanksgiving weekend is that you get the holiday out of the way right off. Once all the dishes were done, […]
The last of it is going now. The dark is coming so early, the leaves are falling or fallen. There is no more time for short-sleeves or sandals, no more chances for swimming.
Winter’s inevitability is dominant and more important imaginable. The length of the season ahead is best not considered, the brevity of the daylight […]
Last week: River of all my years (steps 1-7)
Step 8: Ascend.
Friday afternoon we drive north out of the city for an hour and then east from Hinckley along rolling hills with state park on the south side of the road, rocky cattle pastures or fallow fields on the north side, small creeks and rivers […]
And so it those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.
- A River Runs through It, Norman Maclean
I have often thought to myself that life is a nothing more and nothing less than a quest for understanding. To […]
Lola is going into surgery as I write this. Having suffered from “happy tail” since we got her in November, our dog is now having at least half her tail amputated today.
“Happy tail” is a common problem: happy dogs like Lola who have long tails wag those tails very hard when they’re excited. For example, […]
My friend Scott not only recently started blogging, but he even posted some wonderful dog photos that he took at a little mini dogfest we had at his and his new wife Laura’s house on Saturday night. He somehow managed to get a few of Lola while she was looking at the camera… No small […]
A chapbook I've published containing my writing alongside the work of some other talented folks.
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