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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]When spring arrives, I face a mountain of chores, one of which is to make the rounds of my...

13 March, 2026

My travel companion (Lisa) and I spent 15 nights in Italy last month: Naples, Siena, Tuscany (by car), Cinque Terre,...

08 November, 2025

One year ago today I watched my wife—my partner of 26 years—die in a hospice bed. Just forty minutes earlier,...

28 August, 2025

When I bought this ruined farm nearly ten years ago, I knew it'd take a while to settle in. The...

05 May, 2025

I'm excited about my new band, not only because it's a most excellent group of musicians (and nice people too)...

10 April, 2025

One month after watching Jill leave this world, I released her ashes to the Atlantic. Maryland's barrier island, Assateague, was...

30 October, 2024

Thank you for your cards, for your caring words, for your kindness during Jill's long ordeal with cancer (4.5 years)....

10 October, 2024

Jill Adrienne Eicher, my life partner of 25 years, died on Thursday evening due to complications of metastatic breast cancer....

30 August, 2024

When Jill stopped chemo nearly three months ago, her oncologist said she had about six months left. Since then, things...

26 August, 2024

I haven’t felt like writing a blog entry for a few months because, well, it’s not a lot of fun...

22 June, 2024