Scooter & Skipper at the Junior Algonquin Club
It’s the final weeks of August, time for me to check on the kids to see how they’re doing with their summer reading lists. Things haven’t changed much in our little town since I was […]
Poetry for Cats
Call me crazy, but I like to write poetry. For cats. Cats are a good training ground for poets. They are largely indifferent to poetry, like the overwhelming majority of people, but that still makes […]
The Unsupervised Summers of My Youth
At a college graduation a few years back it hit me: my two sons had grown to manhood without ever playing an inning of unsupervised baseball–that is, without uniforms, screaming parents, and designer bottled water in the dugout […]
Ripping the Headlines Today, 8/21/26
Making fun of the headlines today, so you don’t have to The news, even that about Costco organic chicken, doesn’t need to be complicated or confusing; that’s what any new release from Microsoft is for. […]
Riding With the Dead
The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles issued driver’s licenses to 1,905 dead people. The Boston Globe It was one of those miscues that causes you, in retrospect, to slam your palm to your forehead and […]
Last Call for the Merit Badge Failures
It always returns at the end of summer–the feeling of failure. It has a dry, bitter taste that goes with it, as if it’s a wasting disease that afflicts your entire body and psyche and […]