Mary Gilman is the One I Love
Mary Gilman is my partner, traveling companion, and buddy. I’m glad we are together again and I’m not gonna waste time chasing others.
Ponderings
Sundays I Can Still Remember
Sundays are days that I often reflect on, and over the years I have published many blog posts about things that happened on Sundays.
Christmas Blues in the 413
I can’t say I am excited, happy, or festive at this time of the year. It’s Christmas, so rife with memories, mostly good, but all gone down the river that flows behind me. So much of my life has slipped behind me, in that churning never stopping river of time. […]
Inspired and Hopeful to Leave CPAP Behind
I am going to be turning on the Inspire Device that I had implanted into my chest yesterday in one month. Hope to stop using the CPAP device.
August 2022 Ruminations: Good, Bad, Indifferent
August ruminations about a life that feels lonely and challenging, but hopeful for things to bounce back soon as my travel resumes.
Downtown Amherst’s Changes in 2022
A late night walk in downtown Amherst Mass to see the new businesses that are opening up there.
January: A Look Back, and No Resolutions
January is always a month of reflection and doubt, coupled with a need to publish new year’s resolutions. A look back at some January memories.
Christmas Blogs From 2004-2021
As this blog is a repository of my feelings, actions, and deeds over the course of my life, I often like to go back and see what I was writing on this same month, in previous years. The part that always gets me is how long ago you can scroll […]
How mRNA Works
Allysia Finley explains some principles that are basic and simple, yet to me vastly and almost ridiculously hard to understand.
Tonight I Fly to Portugal
I am flying to Porto, Portugal to join a cruise from west to east on the Douro River on the Scenic Azure, a small river ship.
Europe Looms: With Las Vegas and Maine Coming Up First
June and it’s over for us here in the U.S. I commented today about how surprised I have been that the pandemic has lasted as long as it has. I have to say, despite whoever is still mask-wearing and fretting, damn it, it’s over. We survived, and it is only […]
A Solitary Life Even as the Pandy Ebbs
I’ve been spending what feels like a spectacular amount of time solitary, all alone these past few months, and it has lost the charm it once had. During the height of the pandemic of 2020, it all felt fine to hunker down, day after day, night after night. I spent […]