Ocean

It would have gone swimmingly had it not been for that message – the one that came in early in the morning: hello, we’re looking for a condo...

Flowers again, but this time with a purpose: We’re carting them over by truck to Ed’s farmette for the remainder of the month. There, first ...

Take the flowers and run. (They were at a bus stop on my partial ride back from the office.) And it will be like that tomorrow, too. Take th...

I write this as the air conditioning is pumping ungodly amounts of cold air into the condo and my head is spinning with all that I need to d...

It’s Monday, but I am at Lazy Jane’s, standing in line for a breakfast of eggs and toast. A delicious way to begin the week. My daught...

Happy birthday, my oldest one. Oh, I’ve had the whole day to say this to her. Having a summer birthday has made things easy – she has nearl...

Three markets and several outings later, including one evening run to the Union Terrace, and I am spent. And all because of them: (daugh...

The thing about daughters is that they stretch you. You watch vampire flicks (True Blood? What the hell is True Blood?), and you run down to...

Riding the bike to campus, I think again how I underestimate the time needed to get there. I’ve done the ride hundreds of times and still I ...

And now I come the what next portion of the story. It’s all well and good to sell your condo and move on, but you really have to know where ...

I can’t remember ever spending this many waking hours cleaning a place that was already pristine immaculate. That’s what marketing your prop...

You have to think that we continue to procreate and recreate and create and tally forth because, on balance, we, as a people, commit more ac...

I want to start and end this post with Minneapolis. I’ve neglected it thus far, even as the city defines my days here. And it continues to...

Still searching and sampling. A morning run to a Baker’s Wife and then the Angry Catfish . The first has a traditional air about it. T...

I am in the thick of color. And I mean so much more than the hues and tones around me. (Though not to ignore those!) If you’re not impressed...