Nov 25, 2024
History can be inspiring, profound and amazing. Also fun. Want to tell a good story at the Thanksgiving table? Try these tales about the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. First, some vocabulary. This week, start casually dropping these terms into conversation. A...
Nov 14, 2024
I’ve never been much of a button person, so it was something of a sea change when I sought out Harris merch. I’m putting those particular buttons away in a drawer now, but there are some, pictured here, that still might be needed. One is reasonably level-headed. The...
Oct 3, 2024
It’s a time for doing what we can, as this election cycle turns into the homestretch, all the competitors lengthening their strides, accelerating for a possible photo finish. The heat on the track is increasing. Most of the things we do as individual citizens, however...
Apr 3, 2023
“Listen, my children, and you shall hearOf the midnight ride of Paul Revere,On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;Hardly a man is now aliveWho remembers that famous day and year…” Here comes the eighteenth of April again. I read that poem periodically for the...
Sep 6, 2022
In our old house outside of town, I used to work out in the mornings after the kids were picked up for school. I relieved the drudgery of the NordicTrack in a not-very-ennobling way, recording reruns of an over-dramatized medical show of the time called ER and...
