On September 11, 2001, at 8:00 a.m., I boarded a plane bound for Chicago with a continuing segment to Westchester. I was then working for a food ingredient manufacturer and I was calling on a new account. The job was another in a string of jobs that began and ended nowhere until I realized I… Continue reading In the Air, Inside the Air
I Guess It Was Two Years Ago I guess it was two years ago that I awakened to the reality that my book project at that time, a project I had worked on for five years or more, would never see the light of day. I had written a draft containing more than 250 footnotes,… Continue reading Thoughts on Facing the 6th Draft
Politically I am Pretty Neutral The more I work on my book about being a paramedic in the time of AIDS, the more I am seeing parallels to the COVID-19 pandemic. I blame the Right, I blame the Left, I blame the medical community and I will not let China off the hook. Taking a… Continue reading Why Is This Still a Thing?
The Boxwood hedge shrub in the front our house has unofficially divided our property from our neighbor’s property to the north since well before I moved into our home. As we are on good terms with our neighbors, I will identify them by name: Bob and Mary. My guess is that the shrub had been… Continue reading I Found Nothing but The Truth
How do you reset yourself? What is the device you use? I have been thinking a lot about this lately. I am not a young man and I am losing friends, my writing is in the creative doldrums, I have been taking care of far too many people as of late, and I am afraid… Continue reading There are many times I miss Japan (none more than now)
This is the first post on my new website. I have chosen an image I took of my garden not more than 10 minutes before the start of writing. Aside from the lettuce and radishes, not much more has popped through the ground. It will. I’m a decent gardener and we enjoy the crop from… Continue reading The Garden in Mid-Spring
