Philosopher In Meditation, 1632. Scanned from Paintings In The Louvre by Lawrence Gowling View larger image Not that this reminds me of anybody in my house.
For Adam and Tricia. cartoon .
If you have the time, read the first two articles from the March 24th edition of The New York Review of Books: Very Bad News and Welcome to Doomsday. In Very Bad News, Clifford Geertz reviews two books : Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond and Catastrophe: Risk and Response […]
If you have the time, read the first two articles from the March 24th edition of The New York Review of Books: Very Bad News and Welcome to Doomsday. In Very Bad News, Clifford Geertz reviews two books : Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond and Catastrophe: Risk and Response […]
ì ‘Sugar.’ You like that, donÃt you?à ìYou mean Jeff and Karen?î ìHey, Sugar.î ìItÃs a southern thing, isnÃt it?î ìI guess so.î ìWe say, ‘hon.’ Maybe they think hon is quaint.î ìWe do say that, donÃt we?î ìOften. You use it all the time.î ìExcept when I say it, IÃm thinking h-u-n.î Dinner at […]
View image Matthew brought Sarah and we had a most unusual MFA experience. The Ralph Lauren Collection of Cars. Cars? Not art? Audio players with Ralph describing at what age he fell in love with which car? ìDad, heÃs a jackass.î DonÃt misinterpret, weÃre glad we went, but IÃm convinced it set the mood for […]
View image Matthew brought Sarah and we had a most unusual MFA experience. The Ralph Lauren Collection of Cars. Cars? Not art? Audio players with Ralph describing at what age he fell in love with which car? ìDad, heÃs a jackass.î DonÃt misinterpret, weÃre glad we went, but IÃm convinced it set the mood for […]
My last day with Teresa. ìHow is your coffee? Warm enough?î She asked. ìItÃs perfect coming from a microwave.î ìI heated it for forty-three seconds.î ìDid you call Walter this morning at seven?î ìI did. But yesterday, or was it Monday…I walked the dog again and he called at 7:03 wondering if I had fallen […]
Denise Dill playing at Penny Lane in Evansville, Indiana. View image
Ann left me a blank check on her dining room table with a note: “Michael, tell me if the remainder of the bill is over a thousand dollars and I’ll transfer money to cover it.†When she asked if I would work for her mother in Cambridge I said, “Sure.†Teresa is short, dark, with […]
Florence slipped in the bathroom Friday night and now has a non-displaced stress fracture of her greater trochanter. Call it a hip fracture that won’t require surgery. Flo sat (laid, squirmed, shifted) in the emergency room from 11 AM until 8 PM when a room finally became available. That kind of torture would break a […]
Kitchen Duty My brother Brian and Diane. My apologies to anyone whose comments I accidentally erased. The blog receives an eviland vicious amount of spam from online poker sites, body part enhancers and viagra makers, and in my hurry to delete the three hundred or so posts to the comment sections I obliterated a few […]