Biking By the Three Rivers in Pittsburgh Today
Last night I had trouble sleeping, since I kept thinking about the plane. What time it was actually departing I hadn’t noted down, so I wasn’t sure when I had to leave for the airport. I fly to Pittsburgh this morning on 11 am flight and at 3:30 pm I […]
A Swimmer’s Journey Ends in Happiness
Yesterday’s New York Times included a story that looked back on the great athletes from the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Among the people profiled was a swimmer who said that she always wanted to be in the Olympics ever since she first felt the water in a pool at […]
Tim Russert Was a Mensch Who Will Be Missed
It’s Sunday morning and Cindy and I sit facing each other on our laptops. We both have thought a lot about the passing of Tim Russert, a man who I met once on Nantucket and found to be charming and fun. We were in the Westender in Madaket, and it […]
Bikeways and Railroads Get Well-Deserved Funds
I read two pieces of good news yesterday and today that brighten my spirits. First was a story in the Wall St. Journal that said Amtrak will be given double the funding from previous years, and that Congress has just voted in a lopsided YEA to support spending much more […]
Radio is Much More Fun in Person
It was a nice to get back on the radio today, I got up early to join Advocate editor Tom Vannah on his morning show on WHMP-AM. Usually I do these shows over the phone, but there is something fun about donning the headphones, listening to his cue, following the […]
Instinct, Written in 1973 by Max Hartshorne
I was clearing out old piles of stuff and found a story that I wrote when I was in ninth grade. I liked it then and I like it now. I’d love to know what you think about it. InstinctThe tires of his Franklin spun along the hot, shimmering road […]
As A Storm Brews Up Men Bellow at the TV
Last night I beheld a spectacular show in the midst of watching the NBA finals. I was in a room with seven men, cheering raucously, in that wonderful let-it-all-hang-out way that only men in a room with no women can be, every point a raft of raised fists, cheers and […]
The Blackout Tells The Story of the Other Side
Last night in the swelter of the heat wave, it was refreshing to watch another heatwave unfold on the TV. Francisco and I watched “Blackout,” a movie about the 2003 power outage and how it unfolded in Brooklyn’s Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood. One telltale scene was when the radio broadcast how […]