Top Ten Observations from My Bike Ride, Breakfast, and Museum Experience This Morning CK and I went for a bike ride to Capitol Hill this lovely morning, had a delicious breakfast at the Jelly Café, [...]
When my son Stephen was eight years old and we lived in the Pennsylvania woods, he occasionally donned a makeshift red mask, cloaked himself in a red cape (from an old magician’s costume), and stood [...]
The following is a guest blog post I wrote for my friend (and wonderful writer) Eric Wyatt (visit his site) One of the many brilliant craft elements in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard [...]
I just bought some underwear, and let’s just say I’m excited about them. Here’s why. 99% of underwear sold in this country—indeed most of the clothing we buy—is made in places like China, Indonesia, or [...]
1. My son’s feet don’t smell anywhere near as bad as they did on our last cross-country drive, when we had to tie his sneakers to the ski rack. 2. The best way to see [...]
Let me begin by saying I didn’t lose the bag. I left it. There’s a difference. A few years ago, Cynthia and I bought Caitlin a cute suitcase, with her name and a salamander, her [...]
Cynthia and I just got a dog, named Rosie Kangaroo. (Long story. Let’s just say the girl has hops.) When I was young, I always wanted a puppy, but my parents were not inclined to [...]
When my wife Cynthia and I first met, I had just found a place to live in a hemlock pine forest of northeast Pennsylvania. The owner, a great guy named Ron Benjamin, had called it [...]
Wyoming is big. So big you could hike for three hours, as I did today, and not see a single house. Or car. Or paved road. Or person. So big that it has the lowest [...]
When I was little, my older cousin Cheryl called me the Professor. As in, “How ’ya doin’, professuh?” Always with a smile, and always with love. Why “Professor”? I was a very good student, and [...]
