Christmas morning…hurry up and wait
JUNE RECIPE
Sidelined
There’s a wind coming off the Hudson. Frankly, it’s got a real bite to it. After all, it’s autumn in the tri-state area and along with leaves flaming into brilliant color, busloads of appreciative “leaf peepers” and end-of-season sales at local stores, it’s time to stand on the sidelines of a soccer game, a football […]
Writers writing
“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”
– Molière
The doggies need fresh water. Was that a hummingbird? It was a hummingbird! Time to check the mail. Time to check the email. The dishes need washing. The dehumidifier in the basement could […]
Lessons from the (Rail)road
We all have a list of things we haven’t done, but muse about.
“If I just had the time …”
“If there’s one thing I’d like to do …”
“It’s on my ‘bucket list’ …”
Admittedly, some are merely flights of fantasy. Most of us will never climb the Matterhorn, drive a Ferrari at […]
This can’t be real
A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean. – Zhuangzi
What if you could see in four colors? Birds possess that ability, the capacity to see in not only the trichromatic spectrum enabled by the red, blue, and green cones that we are limited to in our human eyes, but also in ultraviolet, […]
Writing about writing
John Lennon summed it up. “Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans.” Things change when we least expect them, and frankly, we can have no response other than to be swept away in the current.
When these odd machines called computers emerged, it seemed that everyone with access to a […]
Two scoops and keep the change
Welcome to ice cream cone season. We doubt that there’s an official governmental edict designed to distinguish these summer days from the rest of the year, but with the way things have been going, that might not be far away. That, however, is a different subject.
These are the days when we find our way to […]
Garden Time
Above photo courtesy of iStock user Marina Lohrbach.
“You still have time.”
The young lady at the garden center had been watching from a distance and edged closer to overhear our conversation rife with indecision. There was a bit of laughter in our back and forth, with remembrances […]
Play Ball
It was in the middle of yet another winter storm. The “New England Cocktail” was in full view – snow, sleet, and freezing rain well stirred with a gusting wind of 40 mph pushing against the windows. The age-old quandary of “shovel now or shovel later” was temporarily displaced by another cup of coffee and […]
Psychological Spring
It was not too terribly long ago that the doldrums of winter, stretching through January and February, could be mitigated with one visit to the mailbox. Long nights and days of howling winds seemed to be on the menu day after day with the dejected weather forecasters droning on about “mostly cloudy and cold with […]