AS THE YEAR TURNS
Ah, February. The month of love. Flowers and candy and jewelry sales hoping to boost engagement proposals.
Measured lives, just like us
You may have noticed. The proliferation of so-called “celebrity biopics” continues both in a movie theater near you or, more conveniently, on a streaming service inviting your homebound blitzing evenings and weekends. When, a few years ago, Timothée Chalamet emerged as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, theaters were filled and song downloads of “Tangled Up in Blue” and “Mr. Tambourine Man” skyrocketed. The Nobel Prize-winning poet moved into the spotlight once again, decades after Robert Zimmerman emerged from Hibbing, MN, and became Bob Dylan.
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 […]