I heard the vague, and vaguely familiar, sound of water on my rooftop Wednesday night. Could it be? They’d been predicting it. But was it really here? I slid open the patio doors. The concrete decking around the pool glistened in the dining room light that shone upon it, and the surface of the pool […]
Read more →…my family moved to the U.S. from Lincoln, England. I was five years old. It was the summer of 1956. We were all refugees in our heads and my father was a refugee in fact. He’d fled Poland in 1939, made it to England and joined the RAF. He met my mother at Friday night […]
Read more →Before we get started, let’s be clear that by “Man” in the title of this post, I mean men and women. The aspect of our clothes…their importance to who we are, their freeing and constraining virtues are the same in varying degrees for both sexes. “Varying degrees” is clearly the key term here, and I’ll […]
Read more →It’s been an interesting week here in my head, and I’m going to write this fast so the emotions get on the page without too much editing. My wife had a dear high-school friend and her husband in from New York for a visit. They’re both friends of mine, too, of course, but the week […]
Read more →So here’s how it started… First, a sushi dinner, an early one, home by 7:00 on what seemed to be the coldest day of January this past Thursday, 49 degrees and dropping. (Okay, you East-Coasters I know how ludicrous that sounds.) So we built a beautiful fire, put on some Bill Evans and enjoyed the […]
Read more →I’m not a big football fan. Play-off games and the Super Bowl, those are about the only games Nettie and I watch. So we watched the Seattle Seahawks & San Francisco 49′s game last week. We saw the Richard Sherman’s controversial “rant” at the post game interview when the Seahawks won. I understand how adrenalin […]
Read more →Water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink… This is the famous line from the famous Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem, The Rhyme Of The Ancient Mariner. Perhaps you recall it from Jr. High or High School or College? No? Ever heard of an albatross around your neck? Yep, it comes from this poem, too. […]
Read more →Well, the holidays are behind us, fireside moments etched in our minds for eternity, family disturbances calmed for the time being, and the promise of tighter stomachs and smoother butts are yet to be broken. All best wishes for the new year ahead! Now let’s get down to it. The wedding of our son Miles […]
Read more →For nearly three years, I’ve been working on a new novel, and I’m pleased to say I completed it last week. Although it’s true that I’m the kind of writer who edits as he writes and rewrites as he edits, I still have an intense month or so ahead of me that I’ll call the […]
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