This is a serious concern. Not sure how long this Redacted segment will remain available on the streaming video service, but I think it sho...

      The heat continues. It was 113F here today. Yuck.     It's hot now and has been for some many weeks, but this is not forever.     ...

 The heat has been terrible this year, but it's not the worst. The worst was 2011 or 2012, whatever year it was that we had more than 10...

 What? 2 posts in one year? Yeah, surprise.  Just thought I'd yank yer chain. Found a beautiful poem today by Manoel de Barros. O apanha...

 Sorry not to write sooner.  To my relief and disbelief, I submitted my Master's thesis earlier this year and my uni saw fit to grant me...

 Life continues apace, incredibly busy, with many plates that I work to keep a'spinning. One of these days I'll bring you up to spee...

Lately I've struggled mightily with the grief of losing Dad. I seem to have waves of days in which I cry a great deal, and this weekend ...

Things have got full sporty up in here. On May 25 in Minneapolis, a gentleman named George Floyd died of positional asphyxiation in polic...

Generally, I'm sidestepping politics, but sometimes it is unavoidable. Like most people, I have strong feelings about a great number of ...

I seem to be pulling out of my illness. I've a lingering cough and my tonsils are still quite swollen, so I'll continue to isolate s...

I surprised myself to note that just three months into this year, I've already blogged several times as often as I did last year. Of cou...

Baby, life's what you make it Celebrate it Anticipate it Yesterday's faded Nothing can change it Life's what you make it ...

It was exactly one year ago today, a Friday, such a beautiful day that was full of the promise of Spring. Two phone calls came from Mom tha...

68 hours from now, I will no longer be able to say "My father was alive a year ago." My jaw aches from clenching back the grief ...