There are still big things, the things that are still a bit of a jolt when they happen.
Like having to sign up for a time to go to the museum.
Like being in a museum for the first time since … since … since …? <<Tries to shuffle files in brain from the Before Times, finds nothing.>>
Continue reading “When stuff becomes ‘normal’”
I was dispatched to get the pizza.
There wasn’t any particular reason, except Suzi had taken the car out a couple days ago to go grocery shopping, and I hadn’t since the weekend, when I went to the drugstore down the hill to grab a subscription.
She figured she didn’t want to have all the fun.
Continue reading “A night out, at home”
“Ex nihilo nihil fit.”
Of all the Latin expressions my sixth-grade teacher dropped into his lessons, that’s the only one I remember.
”Ex nihilo nihil fit.”
From nothing, nothing comes.
Continue reading “Where all the best stuff comes from”
I’m always scouring the internet for interesting reads, but I didn’t think I’d come across something by a speechwriter for former Defense Secretary James Mattis on …
… how today’s obsessive selfie-takers could learn something from Rembrandt on this, the 350th anniversary of his death.
But sometimes you find stuff.
Continue reading “A little Saturday reading”
I had to know what was going on at the Majestic Delicatessen Cafe.
Not specifically what was happening inside — I’ve never set foot in the place — but what was being promoted there, after my buddy Craig wrote one of the funniest replies I’ve ever seen to a Facebook post I wrote last year. Continue reading “New York, New York: What a day”
A Silly Place 