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 […]
Nice, France October 12, 2005 I was ensconced for two days in a high hamlet below the Alps and above the sea. I now write from the eclectic city of Nice, nestled comfortably in between. This is my first visit since Rita and I were here several years ago. My excuse is the bi-annual meeting Unisys hosts […]
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, 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 […]
Being confined to quarters, quarantennui is rampant, so I am running out of things to write about. But anyone reading this has thought that for years. Today, we retreat twelve years, and continue to empty the archives. Walla Walla, WA August 4, 2008 Tho’ we never lived in the same state, and they spent their […]
Atlanta, GA May 2, 2020 My wife is marvelous in many ways. She is beautiful, intelligent, benevolent…and diplomatic. She can lift her husband’s ego, while keeping his feet on the ground. Earlier this week, she did both at the same time. “You should start a blog,” she told him, as his chest expanded and his […]