Patty Larkin’s song “Helen“, paints the picture of an aging matriarch lamenting the changes that have come to her beloved rocky coastal down Maine, 40 miles from the Canadian border. […]

If you’ve ever spent the weekend up in the mountains camping out at one of those 60’s hippy-esque freeform music festivals, it’s pretty easy to describe what Folklife is. Exactly […]

Okay, actually on a roadtrip for the first time in a couple of months, so I guess I best try to live up to the blog’s namesake. On my way […]

Not the traditional road trip, this one, but a trip back through time. This past Friday night, a bunch of my co-workers and our respective spouses left our respective kids […]

As of 5:00 yesterday afternoon, my two-month sabbatical is officially over. I head back to work on Monday morning, poised to dive back into the fray and discover whether either […]

Blog’s been a little sparse lately, eh? Yeah, I know. I’m painfully aware that these last two months, while I’ve been on sabbatical with “all the time in the world” […]

Sometimes, you’ve just got to breathe, and remind yourself that there are “problems” and there are “inconveniences”.  Cancer is a problem. Getting lost at night in a Denver snowstorm with […]

Pulling left a lane to pass the lumbering parade of trucks on the gently curving slope, I tap just a touch more gas in, and the little MG jumps like I’ve […]

Every webhead knows that when your browser tries to fetch a page that doesn’t exist, or has moved on, the server will return a “404 – Page Not Found” error. […]

The stories that are the most worth telling are always the hardest to start. My friend Dan called me out on never having made good on a promise to describe […]