Kentucky Just Kentucky. You won’t know the name of the town, anyway. Picture what you will. Let your uninformed imagination run wild. South of the Mason-Dixon line. Barely. A border state in the Civil War. Brother on brother, and all of … [Read more...]

I went home this weekend for Father's Day and found out a teacher of mine from high school had a stroke. He'd been retired for many years, but as a teacher, he was prone to throwing erasers at students from time to time (mostly when they were … [Read more...]

A friend and I are taking a master naturalist class at Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge. It’s eight weeks of three and a half hour classes every Wednesday at the visitor’s center just up the road. Last night was mammal night, which is not nearly … [Read more...]

This Saturday, the college’s most famous alum, Woodrow Tracy Harrelson, came back home to receive an honorary degree. From what I hear, he hung with the men in his fraternity and spent some time with the theater folks. A big group of alums who went … [Read more...]

There may be snow, but that didn't keep me from putting a few seeds in the ground this weekend. I got out there Saturday, before the temperatures plummeted and the snow started falling. We have a raised bed in the backyard, and one of the advantages … [Read more...]

We encountered some brief technical difficulties at You Think Too Much this past week, but appear to be back up and running now. It seems like one of those things that when your blog is down, you have all these wonderful ideas for blog posts to write … [Read more...]

As you're reading this, I'm on my way to Key West, where it is not snowing. Where there is no chance of snow. Where the temperature will reach the upper 70s, and I'll remember again what it feels like to be that warm. But last week before I left, … [Read more...]

-This is a picture of the sweater I was supposed to finish knitting early this winter, so I would not be forced to wear the same sweaters over and over again. You can also see the picture of what this sweater actually looks like at this point. Maybe … [Read more...]

It was about this time last year that I instituted my Week of Winter Walking in order to survive into spring. This winter makes last winter look like a small ball of fluff you might pick off your coat. Like a single drop of rain falling out of a blue … [Read more...]

Today, I drove to the coffee shop. Nothing particularly exceptional in many parts of the world, and especially, perhaps, in the burbs, where everyone drives to the nearest Starbucks. But in my town and my life, to drive to the coffee shop is a big … [Read more...]