One Year Ago Today

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
My New Band

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
Unloading

As we enter the fourth year of Jill's terminal diagnosis, we're surprised she's lasted this long. For the past six...

21 February, 2024
Seventy

Today, I’ve turned seventy. No longer can I pretend, as I might have in my sixties, that I’m still “middle...

04 December, 2023
Our Hen House Cottage

  Our Hen House Cottage A bit of background: Built circa 1940, the original structure was a hen house constructed of oak and...

12 December, 2020
Jill’s Travel Trailer On the Road

During election week, Jill and I took our travel trailer on the road—to Assateague National Seashore and points south. The...

11 November, 2020
Goodbye to My Mom

My mom died yesterday of kidney failure. She’d been failing for a while, most unhappily during this past year. She...

14 April, 2020
Our Farmhouse Restoration

Jill and I got a lot done last year, including a couple of major improvements to the farmhouse. Mostly we've...

07 January, 2019
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