Saturday dispatch from the campsite

I can't recall the last time I swung a mattock. It felt good...

My Country Sunday

The last time I lived an honest-to-cordwood "country" life was almost 40 years ago...

Good spirits

Topping the list of things we missed while traveling is, without a doubt, our friends...

Theater silences choir

This is Day 343 of 15 Days to Flatten the Curve. Deb and I are great. Today’s header image, by the way, is 40 years old. Well, it looks like the month of February came and went without news of one of my favorite traditions...

Day 321: Trains & planes, but not automobiles (yet)

It’s Sunday, the Seventh of February, 2021. This is Day 321 of 15 Days to Flatten the Curve and Day 81 of Ohio’s 21-day WuFlu Curfew. Deb and I are ok this weekend. (If you don’t believe me, check out the drop-caps in today’s post.) As promised, today’s header image...

Day 303: And here we are

This is Day 303 of 15 Days to Flatten the Curve and Day 63 of Ohio’s 21-day WuFlu Curfew. Today also marked the disappointing end of the Trump administration — the most pro-America and pro-American four-year period of my lifetime — and the beginning of...

Day 296: Propaganda on parade

It’s Day 296 of DeWine’s audition for Biden and Day 56 of the curfew everyone ignores. Deb and I are ok. Honestly, I can’t remember another time when the air was so thick with wild theories