Ocean

Sometime early last week : So about our phone conversation last night? Yeah? You fell asleep in the middle of it. I did? Tell me I didn’t! D...

People say this about me: she doesn’t eat junk food. Those who see me binge, know that, for my late night crazies I eat many bowlfuls of rai...

A day to wrap things up here on the east coast. Daughters are easing back into their own habits and routines. Parents are coordinating sched...

A gala night. Roomba food and Claire's cake, gifts and kisses, candles. True, my girl turned twenty-one a day ago, but her’s is a protr...

I am up late last night, reading law school admission files. One applicant includes his book of poetry. I flip through it. Not bad actually....

I no longer have babies. My littlest one turns twenty-one today. A day to look back at old photos... And to remember why I love her more tha...

In the last day or so, I received two gifts of a material nature. One expands and contracts, is snazzy and sleek, German-made, steel gray in...

I have never been subcontracted to do anything. Yes, sure, I get the occasional call from some desperate souls who want to hire my attorney ...

Ed has these friends. These friends have ice boats. Ed, ever mindful of the fact that I am never as happy as when I have something to shoot ...

Skiing and I, we go back a long way. I was on wooden boards before I could say a single word in English. But it hasn’t happened here, in Mad...

I’m waking up. The sun is out there. The temps are hovering in the thirties. There’s no question. It’s a day for rescuing the prairie. We ...

As I make arrangements to rent a room in a French village for several weeks this spring, I am asked to send over a deposit to secure the dea...

lessons What are doing? Working. What are you doing? Working. But it’s fifty degrees outside. Warm enough for your trial run. So, before I t...

Maybe only one or two readers are old enough to remember this little ditty from our b&w TV screens of the early sixties. You had to imag...

It may be the last thing I do. Truthfully, I want to be an honorable person, I do. I want to do right by my family, my friends, my community...

Sometimes I know how to throw many sticks up and catch them brilliantly as they fall. With my eyes closed. I'll watch a movie when cooki...

A walk downtown this morning reminds me what month we’re in. Oftentimes, Madison has brilliant winters. But there are weeks like this one, w...

It’s long past midnight and I am writing a post about a movie . I don’t typically write posts about movies, but the four of us were dazed by...