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The paper calendar I've used since the 90s is elegant: a spiral ring across three pages that hang down. Week day, date, month. It's ...

GOPS ON HOP I am a Gop And I hate hop. If you won't stop, I'll close your shop. You may not smoke it in a house. You may not share i...

In March of 2020, I'd been playing in a local Irish slow jam for three years or so, in which time my ability to find chords had improved...

 Parents! Sometimes it's hard to afford all the presents your child deserves. Let's not get into the reasons--really, we all know ho...

 One of the last things I did on the recent trip to the Upper Peninsula (UP) of Michigan was to hop in the car with my sis and pop down the ...

 About 1983, I recorded accompaniments to a couple Spanish hymns, and became fond of one of them. I hadn't copied it out of the hymnal w...

Yes. It happened. There was a September this year. It haddeth 30 days. I ventured up to the great state of Michigan, via Pennsylvania and Oh...

 I like this shot I got on August 19, from under the Main Street bridge, looking toward the State Street bridge at the Erie Canal at Schoen ...

The bus rolls down I-80, and for the third time on this trip, I unfold some letters. The first two times, I was sharing a seat with cheerful...

I didn't hurry to get to my walk today, as it was going to be cool and (knock wood) not wet in about the same proportions for a couple o...

I walked along a street in my home town Between the scenes of yet another dream. A noisy car came near, slowed slightly down; Inside, un-age...

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Living specks hover Spelling words in obscure glyphs I can never read. .

DFT pitched the first one months ago. This was quickly knocked together for a Twitter post using the photo that prompted it and an imag...

Who killed the Sternwood Chauffeur? Raymond Chandler famously didn’t know the answer when he was asked by screenwriters for the adaptation o...

Come here, butterflies! With every random zigzag You refill my soul. It occurred to me while walking that one of my favorite Walt Ke...

Black dragonfly preens:  Frozen, posing, beautiful  Till my camera's on. Standing in for today's dragonfly is a similar one I...

[1] Turning right instead of left can get you an entire extra hour of walking. I did that yesterday, and wound up going all over the place,...

The only references I seem to find to this now are me, quoting it from memory. Here's an example: Former National Lampoon editor Sean...