In honor of Opening Day, a baseball poem by Kate Glavin from Hobart, which publishes great baseball poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Men Try to Teach You Things you already know. Never take the first pitch. Never buy a glove too … [Read more...]
National Poetry Month: Day 2
April 2, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Of course, Wendell Berry is wise enough to understand that a marriage is a kind of place, home made flesh and walking about the earth. The Country of Marriage I. I dream of you walking at night along the streams of the country of … [Read more...]
National Poetry Month: Day One
April 1, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Every year or so, I resolve to post a poem a day for National Poetry Month. Mostly, I fail, but I am a persistent starter. Here's day one, from Limericking: Mike Pence, an adult who is grown, Cannot sit with women alone. However, he can Stand … [Read more...]
Madison Monday: sleeping with the windows open
March 28, 2017 By Leave a Comment
It really shouldn’t be warm enough in March to sleep with the windows open, but it is. Over the winter, you get used to hearing nothing more than the soft whooshing noise the heating system makes when it kicks on. In the winter, we live sealed off … [Read more...]
Whatever It Takes
February 5, 2017 By Leave a Comment
You read a lot of writers who talk about the need to write every day. At first you don’t believe them. At least I didn’t. Every day? Writing isn’t supposed to be a chore. It’s something you do for fun. It’s art. Inspiration. Blah, blah, … [Read more...]
We are the sleeping giant
November 19, 2016 By Leave a Comment
It’s Day Eleven of the new world. We’re still here. It still snows and we are all delighted. There’s still music and food and the river and Joe Biden memes and friends. We are scared and our fears are more than justified. There have been at least 71 … [Read more...]
The unimaginable
November 11, 2016 By 6 Comments
It’s day three in our new American nightmare. The thing we could not possibly imagine has happened. Again this morning I woke up and let the reality settle in. Yes, we did this. We elected him. This is happening. This is real. This is not a hot … [Read more...]
What I love about Stranger Things
August 7, 2016 By Leave a Comment
Jeff and I finished watching the new Netflix series, Stranger Things, on Thursday night, giving me plenty of time to reflect on the show and mourn that it's over (at least for now). Here's a list of some of the things I loved about this show: … [Read more...]
A walk along the river in July, or things that are real
July 19, 2016 By Leave a Comment
This July, I can't get up early enough to beat the heat for my morning walk. Well, I guess I could, but this morning, I didn't. I got down to the river around 8:30 and the fog hadn't quite burnt off. It was one of those mornings when the water is so … [Read more...]
The Great Macaron Experiment: Prologue
July 14, 2016 By Leave a Comment
So there's life before you've tasted a macaron and life after you've tasted a macaron. I discovered this last November in Savannah, which seems an entirely appropriate place to cross the great macaron divide. I had heard talk of macarons, mostly from … [Read more...]
