I won’t be shedding any tears watching 2020 walk into the sunset at midnight tonight. Although, let’s be honest – there’s no way this year is going quietly. I fully expect Times Square to be overrun by ogres from another […]
Month: December 2020
A Blue Word Wednesday
Part of the reason I enjoy Word Wednesday is that it gives me a good excuse to go back through dusty old digital folders looking for something to post. Sometimes, that’s all I find. Other times, it’s like opening a […]
Where’d You Go?
Apologies to my thousands of readers for my absence over the last week or so. Allow me to explain. Or perhaps I should follow the advice of the great philosopher Inigo Montoya and just sum up? I spent most of […]
Do Something Stupid
The story of learning to play bass is a strange combination of curiosity, necessity, hubris, and stupidity. I was leading the band at church and we always had trouble finding and keeping bass players, which I was later to find […]
The Friday Five | December 18, 2020
In this semi-regular post, I talk about some things that I enjoyed, was intrigued by, or am thankful for this past week. One Yeager: An Autobiography by General Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos … I wrote about my love for […]
A Snow Day Tradition
It’s the first big snowfall of the season here in Southern Maine, and I’ve just performed my yearly ritual of standing by the window, looking out at the white stuff piling up, saying a silent prayer for all the delivery […]
A Wider View
I’m a bit of a broken record when it comes to balance. I think about it a lot, talk about it often, and find myself looking for it everywhere. Maybe it’s part of getting older, but I’m less likely to […]
The Art Of Overthinking
Given half a chance, I’ll overthink anything. Take a half hour to pick out a movie? Sure. Spend weeks mulling whether or not I should get a new pair of boots? Yup. Go back and forth about whether or not […]
Going To Eleven
Well, this will make an interesting group psychological case study some day. I’ve had this thought from time to time over the last nine months whenever normal bumps up against necessity. Like remote learning. Something that used to be extraordinarily […]
The Right Time
Chuck Yeager is the reason I fell in love with reading biographies. I read my paperback copy of his autobiography, Yeager, so many times that it literally fell apart some time around high school. In spite of that, I kept […]