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May 15, 2014  Today was the end of raspberry winter, the full moon in May and the subsequent chilly weather. Today you could plant tomatoes. Today I went on the Genehouse walk and marveled at my own muffled footsteps, the … Continue reading →

May 14, 2014 Last night on “Late Night,” Dave’s guest was an actor starring in an HBO revival of the powerful Larry Cramer play, “The Normal Heart.” The play is about the dawn of the AIDS epidemic, in the early … Continue reading →

May 11, 2014 Three hundred of my daughters were kidnapped in the last two weeks, by terrorists. Terrorists need no excuse to do heinous things but the stated reason was that my daughters were in school and being educated, and … Continue reading →

May 7, 2014 The small town of Golconda, population about seven hundred, is in the heart of the Shawnee National Forest, on the bank of the Ohio River. A lot of senior citizens live there because rents and expenses are … Continue reading →

May 8, 2014  It began yesterday morning as I reached the top of Stroke Hill on Stanka Lane, a splotch of purple flower, and as I got closer, pushing aside the curtain of dangling inch worms and braving the onslaught … Continue reading →

March 23, 2014 My friend, Richard P., a professor at Lake ForestCollege, used to work at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. He would invite friends to previews, so I got to see a lot of theatre. And he would invite … Continue reading →

May 1, 2014 When you come to Nashville to be a country western star, consider staying at the Hartleroad Hideaway. The bed is firm, the pool is cool, the deck beats all heck, the free take-home coffee cup is, uh, … Continue reading →

April 15, 2014 In the beginning, the First People and the Animals shared precious Mother Earth with an immense orb of flame so hot and intensely light they feared blindness and fire. The orb of flame must somehow be moved, … Continue reading →

May 2, 2014 I drove a panel truck for the then Alton Evening Telegraph, in the late 60s. My job was to deliver bundles of newspapers to Fidelity, Shipman, Gillespie and Greenfield, as well as throw individual papers onto farm … Continue reading →

Saturday, my friends John and Judy drove me south along the Natchez Trace parkway, in Tennessee. We stopped at several Trace original sections and hiked them and admired the brilliant spring wildflowers. We stood where a ferry once crossed the … Continue reading →