"How to Discuss Paint Colors with your Wife" and Other Stories

              I sadly report a death in the family. My stepson, Scott, died suddenly while working on the 60 acres of woods surrounding his ...

            I wrote this poem several years ago. My grandfather was a successful writer in his day – novels, poems, plays, film scripts. He ...

            As I’m writing this, tomorrow morning’s forecast is a temperature of 9 below zero, with a wind chill of 30 below. In response, I...

            When I was team-teaching Humanities, our music teacher told us about a piece John Cage composed:  4’33” . It was written for any...

                This is a piece I posted on the blog about ten years ago. I think of it as a follow-up to what I posted on Happiness a coupl...

            I am Kim’s deertender. That’s the part I play. And I’m also birdfeeder, foxwatcher, and squirrelhost, but it’s the beautifully m...

            A year or two ago we watched a movie,  Hector and the Search for Happiness , about a disillusioned psychiatrist’s search for an ...