In early May, I broke my finger, a boo-boo from bad basketball that, at the time, was certainly painful but, it seemed, destined to be not much more than that. In a few weeks time, I figured, I would be back on the court, back on the keyboard, back at everything I was doing (however… Read More On Allen Iverson and RatWoman
Somewhere in the depths of the closet in my home office — among the baseballs and bobbleheads, the old books and outdated media guides, behind a bunch of untouched DVDs and about a thousand plastic cups from various sporting events — is a professional-grade, lightly used single lens reflex Nikon camera that I bought at… Read More Yello
9:09 p.m. Today was one of those days. When you ask someone, either out of some misplaced sense of social duty or just as an innocuous greeting, “How are you?” and they say, “It’s been one of those days,” you understand. You know, from experience, that the emphasis in that answer isn’t on the word… Read More Days of Our Lives
We wrap up the blog this year first with some personal, albeit fuzzy history — ’cause write what you know, they say, or at least what you can remember or make up — before sliding seamlessly (we hope) into a peek at the future. ‘Cause, as we run up against the end of another year,… Read More Always With the Back and Forth
As much as I might like to avoid politics, and mostly do, they have a dastardly, kind of insidious way of intruding into my life. Into many of our lives. I’d love to be that guy who has more important things to do than argue Ds vs. Rs, someone who has more important things to… Read More Knock Knock
A few weeks ago, we were walking around our neighborhood, Mary Jo and I, just a little something that we often do when the weather is mostly warm and the sun mostly shining. We wander the streets to check in on our neighbors. We wander to get out of the house. We wander for exercise.… Read More A New Place
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