Jul 31, 2011 | Blog
From Raymond Carver’s poem At Least: “I hate to seem greedy-I have so much to be thankful for already. But I want to get up early one morning, at least. And go to my place with some coffee and wait. Just wait, to see what’s going to happen.”...Jul 28, 2011 | Blog
‘Nuff said, for now. (More on this wonderful new public art -or is it poetry?- Recently installed at the dock, later.) It is time to bake a cake for the Hospice Booth at the Fair. The rain should stop by this afternoon, I’m sure. And if it doesn’t,...Jul 27, 2011 | Blog
The change in the weather, it is cooler, windy and gray now- and may rain a little, has also brought a change in the mood around here. That, and the tragic death of just about everyone’s friend Kevery, who shot himself Monday night. It is an obituary I...Jul 24, 2011 | Blog
“You are no longer strangers and sojourners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God.”- Ephesians 2:19Jul 22, 2011 | Blog
I’d tell you all kinds of things if it would just rain. We haven’t had any all summer, which means I am so busy watering the garden every morning that I don’t seem to have desk time. We didn’t even ride the bikes today because last night we...Jul 21, 2011 | Blog
There is something weird about seeing luxury liners tied up to the old Army dock, but also something thrilling. I remember when the first big ship arrived, it was called the Legend of the Seas and it looked sort of like a floating Shea Stadium, all aqua and orange and...