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Remember those words from your childhood? Because these days, I don't hear them much. Pause. Exhale. It's time to identify your stat...

And therefore, placing a particular house-purchasing family in a cannonball and firing it skywards seems just about perfect! [And I do not c...

Everyone has a camel and a straw. Mine came tonight. Back broken. No comments necessary! Really. No sympathy, no, nothing please. It will d...

…I climb up on the top of the stairs And all my cares Just drift right into space On the roof is peaceful as can be And there the world belo...

There are people who walk cautiously through life. They take a step, pause, contemplate the possible consequences, retreat, move to the side...

I held it together when the house was not selling and, for legal reasons, it needed to sell or else . I held it together when changes were t...

...and the knife and fork and a bunch of kitchen-ey items, as I got the loft ready for a small group of evening visitors. Or, maybe I should...

...if I promise to post after midnight and show pictures of turtles, fish and marble stone, will you still like me? ...if I tell you that I ...

I did. Today, the soon-to-be-owners of our house asked to bring their parents for a special visit. You know, so they could say –“look ma ...

Five years ago if you had asked me about my non-academic interests, I would have talked about traveling, writing, cooking and, yes, gardenin...

Heirloom tomatoes. Accompanying a bunch of grilled things -- scallions, mushrooms, meats, all of it. The best of the suburban life (of which...

So how anxious was I to seal the deal? Anxious enough that the first offer, representing, as my economist pal figured out, 93% of the aski...

The lead story on CNN is about the tornado that touched down yesterday evening in Stoughton, just outside Madison. Oh, how well I know that ...

It could not have been crazier. The minute I finished posting on the blog yesterday, the avalanche intensified: one car stalled, without pow...

Never has time pushed ahead so forcefully, never have so many changes happened in such a brief period of time. When I am not on my bike, I a...

My life today is about dead cars and unplugged phones and missed deliveries and weedy yards and shiny floor surfaces (all the above required...

My first post from the loft (dial-up). I am sitting here mulling over bits and pieces of conversation overheard at a loft party. What do I m...

There is this pack of former Badger Cab drivers that I have gotten to know. A diverse and good bunch of people, always willing to lend a han...

Hey, did I see you on Mineral Point on the bike yesterday, early in the evening? Yes. Was there a rolled-up carpet precariously balanced on ...

If you take walking desires of daughter no.1, add them to walking desires of daughter no.2 and then multiply them by my own, you basically g...