Relevant numbers as of this date. I am fortunate, even if literary stats lag. JR– 69 Cowboy — 2.5 Cancer — 0 ’97 Dodge pickup — 141,806 ’05 Honda Element — 141,836 Novels written since retirement — 0 Blood pressure (Trump-free) — 136/82 BMI — NA
Relevant numbers as of this date. I am fortunate, even if literary stats lag. JR– 69 Cowboy — 2.5 Cancer — 0 ’97 Dodge pickup — 141,806 ’05 Honda Element — 141,836 Novels written since retirement — 0 Blood pressure (Trump-free) — 136/82 BMI — NA
Nothing like: a “you’re stable” report from the good people at Presbyterian oncology, three years out from treatment; a celebratory shredded beef burrito with green chile at the Range afterward; returning home to Cowboy and my books with a view up the camino of thunderheads rising to the north. I will savor those parts of …
Jeff Sessions pushed me over the edge. I had been watching U.S. immigration developments with my eyes toward elections, legislation and court decisions for the righting of wrongs. I got more worried when Sessions and the Trump administration said they would separate children from their parents at the border to help enforce U.S. policy. Then …
East, 8:16 p.m., May 28. West, 8:18 p.m., May 28.
I finish my afternoon reading with “The Half-Skinned Steer” by Annie Proulx and I want to walk with Cowboy before the wind comes up but I decide on the flicker of the moment to re-read the very short story “Bullet in the Brain” by Tobias Wolff and I thumb on the TV to see what …
This really is about me and not my 19-month-old dog, but sometimes I think my self-knowledge might not be much deeper than his. I have been struggling lately with too much news and a lost appetite for fiction. You see, I grew up thinking I would be a fiction writer. But my newspaperman instincts …
Rise and shine. Sore back delayed start, but grateful Cowboy is a herder and not a hunter. ⇓⇓⇓ Christine Baranski dilemma in “The Good Fight” got me thinking about retirement security, but I have no plans to move to south of France anyway. ⇓⇓⇓ Breakfast and lunch: New York hucksters on my plate. ⇓⇓⇓ Latest …
In newspapers and lawyers I trust.
Back by popular demand, here are some recent Cowboy and sky photos for my social media-avoiding friends. I’ve been posting photos of the new heeler puppy Cowboy on Facebook, but I have sisters and friends who won’t go to that spooky space. One sister won’t even go on the Internet. A couple of dogless friends …
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