Ocean

As discussions at work lead toward a resolution today (why do resolutions always involve more work?), I’m thinking to myself: I’m used to th...

Preoccupied with work issues again. None of them are easy. None of them are, for now, bloggable. But, I can say this – nor are they tragic (...

Perhaps not snapshots. I can’t offer much on a day when work dominated most waking hours. Initially, I thought I’d ride my bike to campus (f...

For reasons of birth and nothing more than that, and with no dire consequence that I can think of, I was told not too long ago that my const...

I never stopped. Is there a reward for a crazy plunge from one thing to another until you have no more muscle left in you? The morning was h...

The list of “things that absolutely have to be done today” is long. I’d been away the past few week-ends and now I'm paying my dues. Cho...

Progress. One day builds on the next. That’s the theory. I’m not sure it’s a very supportable theory. So many days are complete puzzlers. Yo...

He remains third in rankings of our most successful presidents (following Lincoln and Washington). In Hyde Park along the Hudson River, Ed a...

Oh! Pull over! He’s used to me saying this. Usually it’s because I want to take a photo. I know this place! There’s a sign dangling at the ...

If you look out a train window long enough, you’ll stop being just a passenger in a train car. At some point you’ll find yourself out there,...

Evening. We listen to a commonwealth of songs – her Ipod, my Itunes -- and we compare associations. This one is from your college graduation...

I don’t really mind the cold and damp. It’s not what I associate with DC, but at this time of the year, that kind of stuff happens. And the ...

When you spend time with your adult kids, isn’t it natural that you should reflect on where they’re at and what role you played in the proce...

I like to say that my oldest daughter lives down south. I have a mother in California and family scattered between Poland and Sweden and of ...

If you had to wait at a bus stop this morning you would have prayed for a quick rescue. Damn cold. Never made it beyond some odd 20 degree f...

You should move to my condo building. This is why: [No, not because boosting the occupancy ratio will make it more probable that I will succ...

Covered with wet snow. Buds, slapped down by a winter mix the next morning. Even Boston has to endure the reappearance of wintry stuff. Earl...