Worst. Blogger. Ever.
May 28, 2008
Filed in: Alaska, The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
How bad is it? It’s this bad: my teenaged child emailed me the other day from the “contact me” section of my own web said and said it was lame that I haven’t been blogging. That bad.
I know I’ve been gone a long, long time. I wasn’t kidnapped—I was run over, mauled, spit out, and left for dead...
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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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Two Duhs and a Ruh-Roh
March 29, 2008
Filed in: Alaska
I imagine Alaskans, especially those in the tourism business, spend their long dark winter months drinking and swapping tales about how incredibly stupid people from the Lower 48 can be.
I am still months away from setting foot on Alaskan soil and already I have committed a couple of whoppers....
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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...
