Ocean

I have, over the years, slowed down. You don’t notice it when it happens. One day, you’re flying between court cases and class teaching and ...

My feeling is that if you can’t brag about the colors just outside your door in mid-October, then what good is mid-October? Which brings me ...

Finally. Half way into the semester, I have developed a rhythm. I’m in control. When I have a few minutes of spare time (on the bus ride in ...

Early in the day, Ed and I take a walk to the market. A typical November market. You don’t think “bounty!” Instead, you notice the empty spa...

I’m not one of them. Are you biking to work today? – Ed asks. Is he serious? No, I am not biking. Then why did we replace the battery in yo...

My visiting daughter has an early flight out. I watch her get ready. In my mind I count the days when I’ll cross paths with her or her siste...

She ran ahead, in the way that she used to run ahead when she was small. In those years, her younger sister, held by one parent or the other...

I am so tired. Eyes half closed. Begging for the release of sleep. Will you accept just a photo or two, maybe from the downtown farmers mar...

You may think I have spent an unpardonably long period of time trading adventure and exploration for work and tedium (with a little bit of e...

I’ll stick with the theme of green tonight. Green leaves – the leftover nothings, the ones that cling without really believing that they’ll ...

So many Ocean posts and photos of men (and women, but mostly men) fishing! Perhaps I’ve been waiting for the night when I can only say one ...

I warned you. Tuesdays take my breath away, and not always in a kind way. So that when I wake up and remember that it is indeed That day, I...

No more Gourmet Magazine. You know what thought came to me first? D amn! I cannot expect to bounce grandkids on my knee X years from now an...

When the seasons change here, in Madison – from fantastically wonderful (summer) to dismally bare (everything else) – you start looking out ...