Board Meetings
I need a can of Pam. The thought occurs to me every year on a day like today. We’ve just had our first snowfall, 2-3 inches of heavy wet heart-attack snow. A few hours from now, our…
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A Winter’s Tale
Sometimes the snow is just so beautiful. Today the flakes are big and fat. Not falling. They’re floating. That should be a meteorological term. Let’s go outside this morning and enjoy the snowfloat. The chairs we might…
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A Review of “You Can’t Stay Here”
Sam Hedenberg’s “You Can’t Stay Here” pulls back the curtain on bartender work, and it is hilarious. We commonly think of bartenders as psychologists, shrewd observers of human kind. Hedenberg is all that and more. He muses…
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Gimme the Ball
That summer, shortly after the French family moved into the house across the street, we decided it would be fun to give Pierre and Yvette a real American experience. We took them to a baseball game. This…
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This Body Offers to Carry You (from The Enjoy Agenda)
“It smells like worms out here,” my wife says. It’s the beginning of November. We’re coming out of a small grocery store in a light rain one morning. We are not loaded with bags. We’ve bought just…
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Momentous (from Snapshots)
It wasn’t much of a proposal. Really, it wasn’t a proposal at all. It was a consensus decision. Well, yeah, I guess we ought to get married. It was 1977. We were driving south on I-75, coming…
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The Unknown Value
Ask a kid, he’ll tell you. I’m no good at that, I’m no good at math, he will say. Or I don’t get grammar, I’m bad at music, at dance, at sports. I don’t understand science, I…
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Cookies and What? (from The Enjoy Agenda)
Cows, I learned recently, can’t walk down stairs. The problem is weight distribution and the way their knees bend. So you can invite them up, but you may be asking for trouble. I’ve been thinking a lot…
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Death on Vacation
The chemo regimen lasted six weeks. After the first week, my mother-in-law started losing her beautiful silver hair. When she woke in the morning, it was on her pillow. It came out in her brush. We noticed…
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“Help” in Cutleaf
Very happy to see my essay “Help” published in the October issue of Cutleaf Journal. Thank you, Walter Robinson.
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Good Local Grub
“How about a squeeze burger?” I ask Tizi. It’s 11:30 a.m. We’ve just landed in Sacramento. Behind us is a four-hour flight from Detroit; ahead of us a three-hour drive south, in the direction of Yosemite. We’re…
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