Ocean

First, a reminder: I have been getting a trickle of comments (some nice, some not so nice; a shame, but there you have it: there willl alway...

For the first time in years I did not visit my father in Poland this winter. I don’t think he especially noted this. Perhaps the days of win...

He hits the tennis ball, his long arm swatting it from the side, bear-like. I hit back. The wily one against the powerful. He wins, of cours...

Sometimes I think of Ocean as just a warm up for the real thing. To keep dirt under my fingernails before the planting season. So that I’m ...

We had been told to expect the return of cold air. Those predictions are, unfortunately, almost always accurate. I hear my daughters are enj...

You know how cool it is to wake up to a new day? I do. Winter grime, wiped away. Just like that. Oh, oops, hi there! Fancy seeing you like t...

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 ...