Merchants Have Gotten a Little Too Chummy—Or Have They?
2014-08-12 – Now that my birthday is past, I have a few comments on the birthday wishes I received. Most came through Facebook. A few came through email. Some came […]
Tag Archives: Family
What Am I Going to Do With 10 Trees? (And 2 Bushes?)
2014-08-07 – What am I going to do with 10 trees and two bushes? It’s all a result of a survey I took part in given by the Arbor Day […]
Breakfast on the Veranda
2014-07-06 – It’s not really a veranda, but I had breakfast on it. Merriam-Webster demands that a veranda have a roof. We don’t have a roof, but we do have […]
Cookware, Shirts, and a Trip to Mars
2014-06-05 – Many years ago I read a letter to the newspaper column Hints from Heloise. If you don’t know about this column, let me tell you. Heloise gave tips […]
The Angel of Death Did Not Pass Over
2014-05-15 – As we drove home from the hospital tonight when she died, we noticed that the moon was full. The last time the moon was full, it was Passover, […]
Share With Me the Son
2014-04-24 – I’m a little late posting today because I am listening to some songs from my son Cal’s recent art project. You can find it here. The pictures are […]
On Campus
2014-04-01 – While my wife Kit was signing us up for Obamacare (which she calls ACA), I was on a tour through the bucolic campus of Grinnell College in […]
Born Again and Again
2014-03-30 – My brother-in-law Tim seems to have more than one birthday. Oh, they’re all in the last week of March, but they seem to move around each year. His […]
Cuckoo for Chicken Pox
2014-03-23 – I remember a time before many of the vaccines we rely on today were available. Now, I was a little boy, so I don’t remember any scientific details. […]
The Music of Spring
2014-03-20 – We had our piano tuned yesterday. There are 88 keys on a piano, but there are far more strings than keys (over 200, depending on the type […]
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