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God, it's awful grading all those exams. Today I got so bogged down with a bluebook that I began to question my innate ability to proces...

When I work hard at them, my flower beds look stunning in the summer. All that color, texture, shape – splendid. Gardening experts have s...

One small corner of yuk. 

Just up the hill and around the bend a deserted ice field. Very inviting. 

What'ya doing? I’m carving figure eights. Neat! (This was the exchange between a little tyke on the ice field at Garner and myself...

see the contours of a figure eight? 

How old are you? Fifty-one. Carving figure eights with a car key seems like something my little sister would do. She’s five. Yes, well...

tied at the wrist 

Otherwise, I was fine. Skating like a person possessed. Hans Brinker one minute, Irena Tatyanova Illyanovich (or some such Russian skater na...

A smooth sheet of ice, a setting sun. Bliss. 

Fortune magazine’s long article on Why There’s No Escaping the Blog (linked to via boingboing – thanks) describes the impact blogs have on ...

In case you haven’t noticed, the blog that continues to dazzle and chirp with wit and humor (and includes the...

Yep, writing and writing, from early on, until way into the night (am I doing this visualizing thing right, Mr. Optimum Performance? -- beca...

Here’s the headline today from the leading (liberal) Gazeta Wyborcza. The first paragraph (in bold) reads (in Polish, translation my own): ...

Do I really want to identify with this? Call it my homeland? Maybe I should have been a product of…maybe Estonia? Let me read up on it: TAL...

Is it blog-indulgent to invite people over to celebrate your blogg-iversary? No no, not at all. It is, after all, only an excuse. Just like ...

…It’s just that I received an email from a reader – someone whom I respect significantly (ergo a writer, because as I said earlier in the bl...

A year ago today someone tapped me on the shoulder, as I sat reading my first small cache of blogs and said – you sho...

If practically every source tells me that the vast majority of NYEve resolutions are about eating well, drinking less and exercising more (n...