How Not To Write

Brother needs a shave… I love morning walks, especially Sunday morning walks. The Avenue had a big block party last night. There were hundreds of people crammed onto the sidewalks. I’m surprised to find the streets clean. The only sign of the reveling: a few abandoned chairs and several trash cans overflowing (but somehow tidy [...]

No, I didn’t paint this… but maybe I should. Today I am thinking of Best Mornings… — I am in a mountain vale in Switzerland. The evening before we snowshoed up the mountain, had dinner in a village near the top, then took a 45 minute sled ride back to the bottom. The sky was [...]

This afternoon, I checked in on Twitter and found the tweet below by Tim Pratt: … which in turn led me to this tweet by Neil Gaiman: … which in turn led me to this this post on Neil’s blog: A long, strange day. In the taxi downtown this morning I learned that there had [...]

Chi-Chi and Brains doing their best zombie impressions for the fans. Today, while I was out and about with my boys, we needed to find a place to get our car washed. Everywhere we went it seemed like there were hundreds if not thousands of cars in line for washing. Admittedly, this was the first [...]

“The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.” ~ William James Like many county seats in Ohio, Lancaster was once a vibrant agricultural center. A town with money. This source of revenue dried up in the late 1920s in the run up to the [...]