The last time I had a meal out — man, if I’d have known that at the time — was on the afternoon of March 7. It was a $3 double cheeseburger deal (double cheeseburger, small fries, bottomless Coke Zero) at Burger King, wolfed down on the way to the hardware store a few miles… Read More Monotonous
We have been house-hunting for what seems like years now. Looking for that Next Stop on our life’s tour. Dreaming of a somewhat smaller, quite a bit cooler place, in a hip town a little farther from the cul de sac and suburban sprawl that we’ve been mired in — happily, I will say, but… Read More Our House
It’s a beautiful spring day in north Georgia. Mid 60s. Low humidity. That tree in my front yard is starting to bloom. The neighbors’ cherry tree is bursting into its full glory. We go for a walk. A kid in flip-flops flies by on his bike. Two carpenters working on a neighbor’s porch pack up… Read More Home, Cooking
Some of the words being flung around in mid-March 2020 — historic, surreal, unprecedented, social distancing — don’t nearly, can’t nearly, convey what a whacked-out world this suddenly has become. When at some point we look back on this period, in a few months or a few years, many of us probably will settle on… Read More The Road Ahead
Artie was, from the very start all those long years ago, something else. That’s what we’d say about him, swinging our heads when he was out of earshot: “That guy’s something else.” We regarded Artie with a combination of bemusement and wonder, poking at him to see how he’d react, laughing and recoiling in equal… Read More Lessons From a Friend
You know, if it didn’t involve bundling up and venturing out into public streets, and holding some hand-scribbled placard up for hours on end — and then possibly running headlong into a bunch of wild-eyed, deaf, screaming lunatics in red hats — I would totally be into protest. I mean, I have a conscience. I… Read More Courage and Conviction
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