Across the Alley in the Golden Hour

Shadows of trees against the side of a garage.

01 Jun 2024

Down by Law

We’ve long known that Donald Trump is a de facto criminal. Today, it’s de jure, too.
That matters for the country’s foundational principles. But will it matter to the incredibly thin slice of undecided voters in the swing states?

30 May 2024

Stoppard

Tagging this “theater” hoping others will chime in. I’ve not studied contemporary theater exhaustively (an understatement!). But, in my uninformed opinion, Tom Stoppard is the great playwright writing in English in the last 50 years, and Arcadia is his masterpiece. Care to discuss/dispute? 🎭

29 May 2024

Wascally

29 May 2024

Grateful

Dallas got hit by 80 mph winds yesterday. Not surprisingly, lots of homes, ~630,000, lost power, ours included. But almost exactly 12 hours later, our lights were back on. I think that’s an impressive response. Thank you to the men and women who did that!

29 May 2024

Late May at the Arboretum

a group of people on a blanket in a park

Looking through a Japanese stone lantern in a park

The Dallas Arboretum
24 May 2024

Albert Brooks on Writer's Block

Writing is solving one problem and then the next. It’s like building a house. Once you start, you have to finish… If you hired an architect and a year later you said, “What happened?” And he said, ‘I don’t know, I was blocked.’ You’d say, ‘What?!’

24 May 2024

An-TI-CI-PA-A-A-A-A-A-tion

22 May 2024

Old Friends

Maybe not like bookends (per Paul Simon). Still, 54 years of friendship in this photo.

15 May 2024

Third Places

Micro.blog seems to be amazingly promising in creating an online “third place,” where a community can flourish. But an IRL third place is crucial. Here’s a good article on how that can work (or not).

13 May 2024

Mom

1940s newspaper photo portrait of an elegant young woman

12 May 2024

Doh!

How have I lived this long without knowing the greatness that is the sardine?

10 May 2024

RIP, Frank Stella

Painting/assemblage with many bright colors and shapes by Frank Stella

10 May 2024

Well, hell, yeah

A Martini cocktail with three olives in a cold glass on a silver tray

Long day…

09 May 2024

Could be

While reading Annie Dillard, I wondered if she and Fred Buechner ever hung out. What a mystical/concrete pair. Some Googling might come up with the facts. But, it seems more respectful to both of them to let the possibility hang without a definite answer.

06 May 2024

Where've You Been All My Life

What explains my not having read Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek SOMETIME in the 50 years since it was published?! Nevermind. I’m fixing that now, and am blown away.

04 May 2024