Happy Father’s Day, to all of the dads reading this. I am also beaming my gratitude to all of you spouses, SOs, children, and friends who are honoring fathers today. Happy Juneteenth, to everyone celebrating freedom today. One way that we are free is by choosing which parts of history to spend time remembering and […]
I Don’t Care How Long it Takes to Charge My Car
People ask me how long it takes to charge my car. They are particularly concerned with how long it takes to charge the car when I am away from home, on a road trip. Honestly, I don’t really care how long it takes to charge my car. Oh, sure. I could figure it out. When […]
Bikecamping to Robertsville State Park
I got away for my first overnight bike trip of the year. I biked from my home in Saint Charles south to Robertsville State Park, camped, and came back the next day. I rode 91 miles and climbed 5935 feet in total. David joined me at the Pacific Brew Haus for dinner and rode the […]
Clean Bicycle Chain
Do you remember the good ol’ days of childhood biking when the chain was something you didn’t want to touch cuz it was a greasy mess? Me too. Life was simpler back then. I have 350 miles on my “new” Masi Giramondo bike. I’m a smart guy and I’ve been washing my bike and cleaning […]
What a Great Picture!
I am lucky to hear praise like, “What a great picture!” pretty often when I show people my photos. Less frequently, I get asked, “How do you do it?” I think many folks think that they cannot do what I do. Anybody can make great photos. Here is my two-step guide to doing it. There […]
Focus Stacking
I have been into macro photography lately, taking fun photos of things I have around the house, like salt and snapdragons, and occasionally venturing farther afield to find some flowers. Here are two of my latest. Pro Tip: Click on the pictures in this blog post and view them large, on a computer screen. They […]
My Bicycle Evolution
I have had four bicycles over the last year. It is kind of surprising because, a year ago, I would definitely not have considered myself a serious cyclist nor would I have anticipated buying multiple bikes. This is my journey. Bike #1: Trek Verve+ 2 A year ago today, I bought my first bicycle in […]
When Your Grandson Falls at the Playground
Would you try a little thought experiment with me? It will take you about five minutes, that’s all. Following this paragraph is the text of a one-page speech. Can you read it from a place of empathy? Don’t get caught up in your own feelings, just try to imagine the feelings of the speaker and his audience.
Chanukah Ruminations
Today is the eighth day of chanukah so this seems like a good opportunity to share some of my favorite tidbits about it. This is a holiday which gets conflated with Christmas but actually has nothing whatsoever to do with Santa Claus or Christ and much more to do with respecting all spiritual/religious practices. It’s […]
Finding the Good: Glue
Glue is amazing. Glue is magic. Glue is goodness incarnate. I made a couple of stands for Scarlet out of PVC pipe. I cut it to length and shoved the pieces together good ‘n’ tight. That video doesn’t do Scarlet’s, umm, enthusiasm justice. She is one rockin’ bird. She literally rocked that stand so much […]
Finding the Good: Sight
Unlike my sense of hearing, I am usually conscious of my sense of sight. Sadly, I am often conscious of it because I am annoyed: my glasses are dirty or I cannot get the right part of my trifocals lined up with whatever it is that I am trying to see. Often I am peering […]
Finding the Good: Hearing
I take my hearing for granted most of the time but when I stop to think about it, holy cow!, I realize how much it adds to my life. My hearing lets me communicate with people even when I am not looking at them. Hearing pretty much made raising my sons possible. As long as […]
Finding the Good: Touch
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian received the Nobel prize in medicine this year for discovering some of the key mechanics of how we sense touch and heat and cold. It is pretty miraculous how finely honed our sense of touch is. Just consider how you can distinguish between the texture of a wool blanket and […]
Finding the Good: Smell
I think that it is amazing how intertwined our senses of smell and taste are. I have definitely had the experience of finding a meal less appealing when I have had a stuffed up nose. Sure, I can still taste the food but without the aroma but it just isn’t the same. Smell is good […]
Finding the Good: Taste
My friend told me, this morning, that her husband and she lost their sense of taste when they came down with Covid-19. Thankfully, after two weeks, it has returned. I am particularly grateful today for my sense of taste.
Finding the Good: Red-Shouldered Hawk
Today, a Red-Shouldered Hawk decided to perch on one of our deck posts for an hour or two. I am pretty sure that it was hunting voles, of which Candy and I are more than willing to share from our overly bountiful cache. Hopefully, the bird ate well. It stayed on the post plenty long […]
Finding the Good: Today
Every once in awhile, I have one of those perfect days, like today. I started with coffee and a nice breakfast (steel cut oatmeal, dried blueberries, cinnamon, and a bit o’ honey). I made good progress on the sound effects for the play that I am working on (Blithe Spirit). I had a great rehearsal […]
Finding the Good: Chocolate
So many kinds of chocolate. So many kinds of heaven. Sure, I appreciate a fine, dark chocolate. But there is still a special place in my heart for the chocolates that I learned to love as a boy. Double-chocolate cake Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Kit-Kats Donettes (though I have to admit that the powdered sugar […]
Finding the Good: Walking Upright
I stood up and walked across the room today. It was nothing remarkable at all, except that it was. My balance worked. My muscles worked. A zillion little things all worked together to make my short trip both effortless and miraculous. My friend, Myron, spent a couple of days inn the hospital recently with vertigo. […]
Finding the Good: Stars and Planets and Astronomers
It’s pretty cool that I can look at the night sky and see bright spots of light. It’s even cooler that there are apps for my phone which identify those spots of light. My favorite is Sky Map for Android. But most cool is that there are astronomers, like my friend Murray, who tell us […]
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