Atlanta, GA July 6, 2020 This weekend, while we still could, we committed a little heresy. David was with a friend at Lake Burton in the (north) Georgia Mountains, so Rita, Alexander, and I had the place to ourselves. With our minor away, we could stretch our boundaries, and push the envelope. But how? In […]
Glenn, MI June 14, 2020 Yesterday, for a few hours in the early afternoon, we made ourselves scarce. This slice of paradise is, alas, for sale. As it is being spruced up and shown off, we make a point to head out. During a planned showing earlier in the week, we spent an hour walking […]
Glenn, MI June 12, 2020 Our schizophrenic lake had shown only one personality. For three days, it was calm, quiet, and serene, like a strait-laced, buttoned-up librarian on a Sunday in Mayfield. Barely a ripple ruffled its smooth surface. The sky was clear and the air was still. Tuesday night, the library closed and the […]
Glenn, MI June 9, 2020 Blaise Pascal surmised that “All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.” We are spending more time in open air than in quiet rooms, but agree a constant quest for action can be destructive. So can Lake Michigan. Winter and waves destroyed the […]
Glenn, MI June 7, 2020 As a headline had it during the SpaceX launch last week, it’s a good time to get away from Earth. That’s impractical for us, so we did the next best thing…and ran away from the world. We needed a change of scenery, and some open space, so have returned to […]
Los Angeles, CA May 30, 2011 We have never had good luck at LAX. Sixteen years ago, when we lived on Telegraph Hill, our aunt called us within a week of Thanksgiving. She wanted us to join her in Malibu for the holiday. Being tired, and looking forward to a long weekend at home, we […]
Atlanta, GA May 23, 2020 This week I endured a doctor visit and enjoyed a graduation ceremony in ways I never had before. They were the same morning, so I had to rush from one to the other. I arrived at the parking lot at 8:30 for my 8:45 physical…and waited in the car. Within […]
Atlanta, GAMay 18, 2020 Today would have been my grandmother’s 109th birthday. It also is a wedding anniversary for her youngest grandson. Much as I love and admire that couple, I confess I would not ordinarily remember that. I did so only because, over the weekend – from a basement box and with almost eerie […]
Atlanta, GAMay 15, 2020 Georgia was freed from house arrest several weeks ago. But school is basically done, and our companies have retained work-from-home policies for at least a couple more months. Of course, one of us works for a company based in Ohio, where terms of surrender have been more unconditional. But here, residents […]
Atlanta, GA May 9, 2020 “Happy Friday!”, came the contrived cheer to start another all-day conga line of Zoom meetings. “I’ll take your word for it that it’s Friday”, I replied. Like an extended vacation…but staying home to work rather than traveling for fun…weekdays now run together, each indistinguishable from the last. Weekends provide some […]