Ocean

In the now three decades that I have lived in Madison, the place that I have most often ran to, just to escape city noise and dust has been ...

The days are still too loaded, packed to the brim. Add a slight detour and they spill over. I find myself neglecting details. Forgetting, fo...

On so many occasions, I do all that I can to keep myself awake so that I can post here, on Ocean before the day's end. Not today. Let...

This isn’t to signal any tragic mood swing. Not at all. I’ve been far too busy for that. Still, anyone who passed through this part of the c...

Shouldn’t you be out after two strikes? How many chances do you deserve in real life to show that you are not a loser? More than one? Really...

The saga of the car purchase continues even as today provides an intermission of sorts. The thread, like it or not, will be picked up again ...

It was the most beautiful car I had ever seen... Sunroof! Yes! The seats turn warm, the seats turn cool, Ed says – hey, they not only go bac...

Ed tells me -- it's the poetry of being alive! Buying and selling cars in America. He tells my daughters --  I guarantee that before i...

There are periods like these: Sunday? Monday? Does it matter? All day long, the goal is to get the job finished. (For me: summer work grad...

By 10 in the morning I had visited two farmers’ markets (one to go still) and test driven an ancient car on the other side of town. The la...

Too early! I’m up and running too early! How am I to catch up on missing days of sleep? Outside, the air has turned autumnal. There is a s...

To make me feel like there is continuity in my life, the weather offers up some pretty steamy moments today. To remind me that this is short...

It is really quite remarkable that a plane can taxi to its gate by 5 p.m. and I should be able to go through passport control, pick up a sui...

I did not want to fly the long way back, but if you want to keep costs down and you fly across one ocean, you have to fly back the same way....