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Friday presents a conundrum to me almost every week. There is this pressure, this sense that I should have a plan, why didn’t I make a plan, what IS my plan? It’s often a night where my significant other likes to join her pals in her far-off village, and thus, […]

What is it about a doctor’s appointment that makes men so anxious? I have noticed this distinct difference between the sexes; women regularly go to check-ups and follow their doctor’s advice and don’t get nearly as wound up as we men do about simple things like the annual physical. As […]

Snow days of yore were wondrous. When I think back on snow as a youth growing up in the village of Blawenburg, my vision of that day gets all gauzy and misty with memories as clear as a tear. I remember one snow day afternoon we had gone sledding down […]

It’s amazing how quickly a day can change, and completely spin onto its head. We were lounging around, puttering on the computer and watching TV, and the land-line rang. This is only relevant because I almost never, ever answer that old thing. It’s just never for me, since people call […]

I have a ritual of removing my old calendars off of the wall and when I put the new ones up, one page for each month of 2012, I eagerly await seeing how it will be filled up with travel. People who travel a lot have to pick their spots. […]

From Northern Chile 2009

I came home to the cold but found that my gloves and a brisk walk solved the problem. Then to the treasures that my mailbox always brings.  Yesterday I published a story by a young writer named Jonathan David Thompson, who recalled an experience he had in Benin recently. He […]