We are on Martha's Vineyard for few days and today seems to be our second day of rain. Our first day and a half were sunny and included a trip on the Menemsha bike ferry and then a lovely ride on roads with sights of the sound and beautiful beaches and dunes. For lunch we stopped at Larson's Fish Market and sat outside on the dock on our beach c …
I am at the age when my adult children complain about me the way I used to complain about my parents. We have some of the same types of discussions and even disagreements my parents and I had thirty years ago. It reminds me of a Abraham Lincoln story. He was in court representing a client one afternoon arguing a case. The judge asked Lincoln i …
Watching the Tour de France, I am thinking of Gino Bartali. Born one hundered years ago, in 1914 in Florence, Bartali is one of the top five bicycle racers of all time. He won the Giro d'Italia in 1936, 1937 and 1946. And won the Tour de France in 1938 and then again after the war in 1948, his most famous victory. It was the largest gap ever be …
Groovin' on a Sunday afternoon Really couldn't get away too soon I can't imagine anything that's better The world is our whenever we're together There ain't a place I'd like to be instead of Movin' down a crowded avenue Doing antying we like to do There's always lots ofthing that we can see You can be anyone we like to be All those happy people we …
Today is the Wimbledon men's finals. It is going on right now, in fact. The finalists are our two favorite players, Djokovic and Federer. Who to root for? I asked Eve, she said she has no favorite to win. I told her she had to. She said no, she is not rooting for either one over the other. What if I told you that you had to pick one or I w …
This past winter I cleaned out our storage closet. Not only reorganized it, but got rid of stuff and made more room. It looked much cleaner and less cluttered. Not any more. Now it is filled with baby stuff. I never thought I would have to buy a stroller, high chair, car seat or portable crib ever again, not to mention a little sippy cup and …
Over the years I have become much more of an optimist. It has become much easier to see the cup as half full instead of half empty. This may be as a result of retraining my brain, or maturing, or maybe not really caring about what I used to think was important and now I realize is not. On a vacation I would sometimes worry more about the fact t …
I am not superstitious. Then again... When I board an airplane, there is a rule. Right foot first. And just before we get on board, Eve always will ask, "which foot again?" and I answer "right foot" and then I pretend I am stepping with my left foot but quickly put the right foot first. I have also began tapping the outside of the fuselage as …
I keep a few balls in my office. I have a hardball, a soft rubber ball, and a small blow up beach ball. There are all recreational diversions, sometimes used on boring conference calls or long Friday afternoons. I also have a yo yo. The self toss only gets me so far. I need something more. So sometimes I stand about ten feet away from my co …
There are nappers and non-nappers. For me, napping is one of the great pleasures and typically it is part of my weekend, each day. From what I have read, a nap is good for your health. Most mammals nap throught the day. We are the only ones with two periods during our twenty four hours, one being awake and the other for sleep. I prefer to be …
As my sixtieth birthday creeps closer, my mind drifts to thoughts of catastrophic illness and death. It is not the first time. I once had a crush on Janice Zloto. She had a crush on my best friend. I wanted to die. But I was only in sixth grade. Five years ago I thought I was having a heart attack and spent the night in a hospital, but it tu …
Do you bank on line? I do it the old fashioned way. By check. My checkbook is a binder with three checks and stubs per page. Every year or so I take out the stubs, clip them, and put them in the bottom of a drawer. My father used to pay his bills out of his checkbook sitting in the dining room table at night after dinner. He also had a large …
We are up at Syracuse for Emily's graduation. And I am thinking about beer. Benjamin Franklin is attributed to saying that beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. It is questionable whether he really said that, but no other drink is as refreshing in the warm months like a nice cold one. The best beer I ever had was a pilsner …
Thinking of going to Ireland this summer, and being a whiskey lover, I thought it would be a good idea to sample Jameson Irish Whiskey. As I learned from having Pilsner in Prague, it is always best to have what is homemade. Eve went out and bought a small bottle, and one thing led to another and we ended up planning an experiment. A blind whis …
Dan was sitting on his bed in a run down hotel in Colonia, Uruguay, just across Rio de la Plata from Buenos Aires. He was smoking a cigarette and watching the sun set from his window. Dan never smoked. He scratched his still sprouting two week old beard and tried to remember what had happened, but it had all been so confusing. Every day brought a …
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