Well, that was fun.
Apparently, the understated Edmund Hillary’s first words upon reaching camp after he and Tenzing Norgay summited Everest were “Well, George, we knocked that bastard off.” Made it sound casual, making […]
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Well – that was exciting…
What’s the Fourth of July without an uncontrolled brushfire? Yeah. We were down at the beach below Lauren’s, watching others along the waterfront setting off some of the more serious […]
Island Time
A man could get used to this. Lauren and Stephen have a little 15 power telescope set up on the porch, overlooking Elger Bay, west of their perch on Camano […]
Seattle
I swear, it’s magic. Devon and I dragged Jeremy out of bed at eight this morning and piled him and a duffle of clothes into the back of the plane. […]
Not From Around Here
I hesitate when Roxanne asks me where I’m from. Around here, I get asked that a lot: grey beard, braided ponytail and red tennies – I don’t really quite fit […]
Twin Cities Recap
Oh hey – I completely forgot to post about my time back in Minneapolis/Saint Paul. No earthshaking events but a couple of lovely, quiet days catching up with old friends […]
A Word About T-Mobile Customer Service: Ahahahahahaha!
Remember that great joke T-Mobile told me last week about sending me a signal booster, so I could actually make calls from my home? Yeah. Another 45 minutes on the […]
A day in the Ellenverse, Appleton WI
There’s a feeling some places have. Warm hand-quilted comforters in a room of solid old oak, with the sound of music and laughter coming from downstairs. You’ve gone upstairs before […]
“What do I hear when I say I hear the call of the road?”
Rolling downhill, eastward across the Saint Croix river, I leave the bluegrass stations of Minnesota Public Radio behind, and and play bottom-end-of-the-dial roulette. I find Dar Williams, “Traveling Again”, and […]
Enroute Minneapolis
The last time I was in Minneapolis, I was a grad student, and I coined a new word for myself: horizontigo. You know ‘vertigo’, right? That disorienting spinning sensation when […]
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