A previous ramble through old family photos turned up a random but almost invariable inclusion of a rooster. My latest tour through the yellowing files shows that dogs might be even more prevalent. There is my grandfather, Homer W. Robertson, relaxing with the famous Jan, who I never met but whose name I heard often …
As I keep having more encounters with care of the elderly, this resentful observation from wheelchair-bound Lyman Ward in Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose comes back to me again and again: “They keeping thinking of my good, in their terms.” Today, fortunately, it set me off re-reading the novel, making it my best day of …
Sure is great to have a niece and two nephews. Wish I been with them on this late May get-together in Montana. One of these days.
Here’s what 29 years of sobriety, nearly 65 years of age, 40 years in the newspaper business and rare indulgence in spicy, fatty foods will do to you: I succumb to a pizza craving, which results in a fitful night of Fellini-esque dreams, ending with an ethics discussion with an investigative columnist, somehow involving fistfuls …
Spring has a hard time figuring what it’s going to do, which direction to go. Look the other way and it gathers and flows to give someone moisture miles away.
Went up to the Capitol on Monday for the Max Coll memorial service. This is what it looked like outside. Good people had good things to say about him inside.
For all the boys and girls in Congress, here’s some alternative perspective for today’s negotiations on the shutdown and debt-ceiling stuff. And while I know many human issues are at stake, I want to point out this story by Journal science writer John Fleck about the effect of the shutdown on migrating Sandhill cranes. …
— “For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,” she told The New Yorker in 2012. “Then I found that they were all I could do, and so I faced that ….. I would really hope this would make people see the short story …
The parade of black-eyed Susans in the creek bed is the parade I should have been following today. Instead, I’ve allowed satellite TV and Twitter to invade my brain, leaving me with a headache and a digital quiver. I thought I should better understand “Breaking Bad,” having not watched it until nearly the series’ end. …
Bye-bye swamp cooler. Hello Oracle. Team USA and Oracle outsailed New Zealand again in America’s Cup on Monday (Race 16). They’ll sail again on Tuesday. Points now 8-6 in first-to-9 series. As I’ve said before, I just want the Cup defense to stay on San Francisco Bay. And, no, I did not take off work …
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