Blogroll

Weekend Edition: 10-4

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

The Body Electric (“Michael Utley does not remember much about his death.”)

Why I Decided War Reporting Was No Longer Worth the Risk (“Why risk it all to get the facts for people who increasingly seem only to seek out the information they want and brand the stories […]

Weekend Edition: 9-27

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Why I Hope to Die at 75 (“Over time, and without our conscious choice, we transform our lives. We don’t notice that we are aspiring to and doing less and less.”)

Off-Hand Observations of the Week

Christmas trees and decorations on display in stores already?!?!? Or was the store […]

Landlocked and booked

My absence the last couple weeks was one abandoning the routines and topography of everyday life. My wife and I went off on an 18-day cruise from San Francisco to New York City through the Panama Canal. As our youngest lives in NYC, we spent a few days there before returning home. And as much […]

Weekend Edition: 8-23

Bulletin Board

I’ve got some stuff coming up that will make posting even less regular, including the Weekend Edition

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Conversations with the Dead (“I know that on a page somewhere on my shelves, staring down at me now, is the question I’m struggling with today, put into words long […]

My puzzling addiction

I blame my parents.

As far back as I remember, every Sunday my parents did the crossword puzzle in the Minneapolis Tribune. Not only that, at some point during the week they bought the previous Sunday’s edition of what memory tells me was the New York Daily News simply to get that crossword.

I’ve […]