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I cleaned out my attachments folder and found these two which should have been posted with their entries. From birdbrain’s trip to Morocco. Incidentally, her next destination – Botswana.Full Photo And one that makes me laugh everytime I look at it. Rakkity in Japan. Full Photo

Taken during our (Adam, Mark S and Dan) last lunch at La Provence in Concord. The glass table provides the reflective surface. View image I received my latest lab tests, from a previous physical, on Saturday and that carried us into a conversation on diet, health, and longevity. To which Matthew offered, “Dad, you’re not […]

From today’s Book Section in the Boston Globe. Art that baffles and Exhilarates By James Sallis The beauty of the novel, the great fascination of it, I often proclaim, shoehorning my words into a space taken up by sputtering attention spans, the latest celebrity news, and remakes of films that apparently (though who could have […]

In the recent comment section you can now roll over to see email addresses. In the past when this was an option for all comments, folks would make up addresses which would further add to the content of the comment. I suggest continuing to do that, or to alter your email addresses in some other […]

Thanks to Dan for pressing me, there is now a recent comment section just below the calendar archives. Now Adam, Rakkity and La Rad can’t have private conversations back in the dusty archives.

Someone wrote to tell me a solitary poker pic doth not a blog entry make. Well, phooey. How about twelve images from the holidays with captions?

These days, my mother rarely sits in front of the computer. I’ll log-on with iChat and she’ll be lying in bed, napping, watching TV or otherwise playing dead. Late Saturday morning I saw her bright face, up close, clicking away. “Something funny happened last night,” she said as soon as she realized I was watching […]

Susan called near dinner time to say she’d made it to Chicago. The pet-friendly hotel had a special cocktail hour for dogs and I guess Wex and Duffy needed to be carried back to their rooms.