Will You Please Be Quiet Please?
April 06, 2008
Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages, The Way We Live Now
It’s weird to be pitching a book about falling in love with America again when in fact I am less and less in love each day with our economic system of government. It’s kind of like going to a marriage counselor when you already have one foot out the door.
Poor Swellville is in such dire...
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Testify, people!
April 02, 2008
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
Six months in the making—proof positive that writing something in random sporadic bursts is never a good idea— my article on Asperger’s and IT is finally live.
Click over there and run up my page count, will ya?
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Sorry in a hurry
March 15, 2008
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
I was raised Catholic and Irish, eating meat and potatoes for suppah every night (’cept of course on Fridays in Lent).
I’ve moved away from all of that to one degree or another. But like a salmon back from the sea, once a year I return to the karmic/gastro landscape of my birth. Which is a...
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Politicians, 1 Polar Bears, 0
March 09, 2008
Filed in: Alaska, The Way We Live Now
Here’s a nice headline . . .
Alaska politicians oppose plan to protect polar bears
My head has been all up in Alaska these past weeks. You start to nose around here and there online, looking at this or that lodge or guided tour or whatever, you send out a few tentative e-mail queries, and...
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Two Questions
February 28, 2008
Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages, The Way We Live Now
1) Chowing down on Mexy food with Beulah last weekend, this came up: “What is the most valuable thing in your house?”
We’re not talking 401K or your car or the various bits of trophy jewelry on your bod. We’re talking in your house. And we’re talking cash value, not sentimental: what did you...
