Railroad

I had a friend who had abandonment issues with her recurrent boyfriend.

Foam and Froth

When you are out in a bad enough blow, there can come a moment when the distinction between the water and air becomes indistinct.

Once upon a New Year’s Weary…

In a lot of traditions, the new year is an unruly time, a time to purge our world of all the accumulated flotsam and jetsam of the old year. We should prepare ourselves for the new dawn of a new year. So much for theory, it's rumination time for me. I can't control it. The …

Rooted

I entered my shop this morning to smell linseed oil, varnish, and wood shavings.

The Fifth Sub-Corollary

I will probably always be a big fan of Murphy, Finagle and their laws. But my favorite corollary is Hanlon's Razor, which says, "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."  We see how easily Hanlon's Razor can go from a hypothesis to a proven feature. Just look at our current …

Winter

I published this last year, and nothing in my atitude has changed exceept i expect shoveling snow wil be worse. Unless of course climate change keeps on messing with things and there is no snow, and sap starts flowining in January. Sigh. I get conflicted when asked about my favorite things. Depending on my work, …

Ahhh Youth!

November is that time of year when I tend to settle in for the winter.  It's an old habit going back to my days on the road. I wouldn't hit the road, thumbs out, guitar, and pack all rigged after October. When November arrived, it would have to be some thing big to dig me out of …

Bittersweet

When you think that everything is going well, you get surprised.

Boatyard Pests

Honestly, I've spent most of my life not thinking about Greenhead flies. But working one summer in a boatyard here in Massachusetts put me wise to the facts