Ocean

Suppose you had a kid who struggled to keep up with the total success story of the other sib at home. You’d love the kid anyway, right? Of c...

I can’t let go. Isn’t there a saying about returning to the farm after a year on the Boulevard St. Germain? I tasted the Sony D-SLR alfa 100...

This is so important to me: how should I be capturing the world on film/flickr? Breaking my camera earlier last week in New Haven made me th...

Oftentimes their skin is pasty from being indoors all day and they wear dorky clothes. The world of machinists, as described by one of the ...

...not possible to pull out the old computer and the new camera late in the evening and to begin thinking about a post on machines. Much bet...

Three packages – one from Fed Ex, one from USPS and the third from UPS. Missed them all. Can pick up only one before the week-end. Which wou...

I rush home in the afternoon just to be there when the mail/fedex/ups vans come. Excuse me, let me interrupt this lovely lunch – I have an a...

So tell me, is it the end? No, but we’ll need to do extensive surgery. I don’t know if I can afford it! Should I just say my good-byes? How ...

A friend sent me an article from the NYT about parrots today. I do not know why – it came with no text. And so I read it, to see what about...

I can say this about Labor Day week-end in New Haven: it may require lifting, moving, dragging, dusting, arranging, unpacking. It may be tax...

Measuring life by notable dates. Do you remember where you were your last birthday? Do you remember where you were on your birthday of twent...

I asked a friend to look something up about replacement cameras on the Net tonight. It did not happen, but rather than finding out that it d...

A busy day. Of course. Moving in can be as taxing as moving out. I looked over the three or four photos that I took all day and I liked no...

I look out the window of first daughter’s new home… …then second daughter’s new home and I think what every parent must think when the...

If I could draw a cartoon of myself today it would be of a person drooping under the weight of a heavy load. Yes, I collected a few bloggabl...

I am on the short flight from Madison to Detroit. Nina? A familiar voice from the seat behind me. I slam my seat back hard in friendly gr...

Exactly. A drippy kind of day. It had a window of light, but otherwise – the rain came down and the skies remained gray. So that even the co...

No real post tonight. Just a photo that joins two prominent chef-proprietors together – Odessa of the first twenty-eight l’Etoile years and ...

I am a law student. Pregnant with a second child, married to an academic, holding the hand of a little girl. The three of us walk up the ste...

It was a stormy day. Anyone living in this town would tell you that the flashes and rumblings the past two days have been out of control. I,...