Dublin, OH December 9, 2019 Harry Truman…tired of being told that “on the one-hand” this, “but on the other hand“ that…yearned for someone to bring him a one-armed economist. This week, had he called me, he’d have had his wish. A couple months ago…like a small trickle thru a river levee…a slight twinge began piercing […]
November 28, 2019 Atlanta, GA “I have endured many horrible things, some of which actually happened.” – Mark Twain Log on the fire, football on the TV, butt on the sofa, turkey in the oven. This week we are home. No travels, limited work, few obligations. But one we must fulfill is to reflect on our blessings, […]
Highlands, NCSeptember 2, 2019 One advantage of spending three months as a shiftless unemployed ne’er-do-well bum is that you eventually don’t know or care what day of the week it is. Things must and do get done, but in general they can be completed on any day you prefer, in whatever order you choose. Similarly, […]
Grand Rapids, MI June 27, 2019 Given the hypothermic water conditions a couple days ago, we decided to wait till yesterday to venture back in the lake. Since the temperature had been in the high 40s and is now in the upper 50s, holding off certainly made sense. Then again, it was a bit like […]
Glenn, MIJuly 25, 2019 Last week’s heat has subsided. Morning coffee and evening wine once again yearn to be consumed under the comfort of sweaters or the cover of blankets. Like a liberating force expelling a foreign army, howling winds and torrential rain made an amphibious landing over the weekend, chased the occupying heat from […]
Glenn, MIJuly 22, 2019 Banners wave along the Champs-Élysées as the Grande Armée marches toward L’Arc du Triomphe. Confetti falls on Broadway as parades proceed down the Canyon of Heroes. Soldiers are joyous in Times Square, downing Champagne and kissing the first girls they can find. Fifty years ago last weekend, man took a small step…and mankind […]
Glenn, MIJuly 21, 2019 When sorrows come They come not as single spiesBut as battalions– Hamlet When it rains, it pours -Same idea, with less pomposity Slave-driven triremes carried the material goods and mental heritage of Greece and Rome through the shoals and storms of the Mediterranean and, over the tide of time, to us. Columbus […]
Atlanta, GA June 3, 2019 Years ago, as Freshman at Georgia Tech, I walked into a friend’s dorm room and saw on the wall a poster of a beautiful blonde biting into a peach in front what was then an Atlanta skyline of about four notable buildings. In bold text across the top were the […]
This is a bit like publicizing my awkward high school year book photo, but below is an edition from the archives. I cringe a bit at the writing, but smile at the memories. Nice, France February 22, 2000 Were human history a library ravaged by a fire from which only a single book emerged, what […]
Tampa, FLApril 6, 2019 We are not in Tampa often… …or at least not often enough. Or at least not often enough during the pleasant “winter” months, when the wind chill dips into the 60s, cardigans emerge from lower drawers or top shelves, and ambient conditions don’t resemble the inside of a locked van in […]