I Am Being Extorted By a Hacker. Are You?
This morning I scrolled through my junk mail to make sure my very aggressive spam-blocker had not culled an innocent...
21 July, 2018
Goodbye, Cleo, My Little Basset Hound
Yesterday, we put down Cleo, our beloved basset hound. She was 15, blind, deaf, and incontinent, and, having stopped eating,...
27 April, 2018
When Somebody Steals Your Shopping Cart
Shopping in Trader Joe’s yesterday, I left my cart to fetch some bananas. When I returned, my cart was gone....
04 March, 2016
A Scream in the Night
Jill and I were making dinner last night when we were startled by screaming from our western field. Neither of...
11 December, 2015
A Bad Week At the Farm
Here’s a schadenfreude buffet about our latest farm adventures: 1) We’ve been without water for five days so far. Our well...
28 October, 2015
Our Third Week on the Farm: Stalled & Wet
I startled Jill from sleep last night when my ice-cold elbow touched her back as I came to bed. Ice...
01 October, 2015
Our Second Week on the Farm: Digging Out
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400"] Everything we own in one place[/caption] It's been a tough second week, I will not lie. Jill...
23 September, 2015
Our First Week on the Farm
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Good Contrivance Farm, circa 1960[/caption] If a fortuneteller had waved a hand over her crystal ball--let’s say...
10 September, 2015
Our Massive Move Out of 2746 Saint Paul
Jill and I are camping today, trying to recover from our move yesterday. The move -- emptying 5,000 square feet...
24 August, 2015
A Return from China
A package I sent to China last September just came back to me. What’s remarkable is not the fact that...
10 March, 2015