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Why do we like to eat so much? Oh life. Such meaning in the preparation of food, in the serving of it --- here, have some . What great fortu...

I know that news stories about people traveling around the holidays are supposed to project a mild (or even huge) feeling of misery liking c...

Up early. Lecture notes to finish. Outside my condo windows, wisps of pink. A November sunrise. Looking up today. After classes, a quick esp...

A day, anyone’s day can be described thus. There’s work to be done, but first, one must clear away the rubble. So that’s what they’re doing ...

…animals and people change. A cat knocks on the door of Ed’s sheepshed. He is given food. He never leaves. But he lives in fear. Of everythi...

...that people are as they are and seasons have elements of dreariness and you have to move beyond that or you become like so many who, in t...

At the end of the day, I drive to Ed’s place. A dozen minutes from city center, it has the feel of deep country, just as he likes it. I like...

Not too long ago, when still in Poland, I looked upon Americans as being wedded to the idea of rugged individualism. You did it on your own....

I first knew of these words ('seeing red') as indicating communist inclinations. And if you do a search, you’ll find others document...

A leaf lands on the window sill. I am in my office. I reach for the camera, I take one picture, push the camera away and continue to stare o...

I drove out to the country this evening to return Ed his car (don’t ask; pretend I like occasionally driving a red '93 Geo with pink pee...

It seems that one ought not slow down in life unless there’s a good reason for it. Ed and I have taken on traveling adventures, etc., for ov...

Gunfire. Interrogation. Groping my way in complete darkness. Cold, five hours of it. One pancake (and whose fault was that?) and a cup of te...

The hardest thing about being the prof and not the one professed to is that, at social events, you have to know when to leave. Even though l...

Day spent working and peeling 100 + shrimp (which is also work) for this: I take pot lucks seriously. And no, I did not use the road-fatigue...