Not really 7000 words. But seven pictures, each theoretically worth 1000 words, would give us that. I had kind of an exhausting week and I didn’t diligently note the interesting moments to write about as I normally do. And I’m still kinda...
go around
My customers in Mexico, and I think most companies there, work very different hours than we do in the US. A typical day is something like 10:00am to 8:00pm, with a two-hour lunch break around 2:00. It’s a really difficult adjustment ...
quite a view
Are you watching the eagle cam? It seems to be all the rage, and I understand exactly why. A mated pair of bald eagles is nesting high in a pine tree overlooking Big Bear Lake, and recently their three eggs have hatched. If you’re...
Lago de Chapultepec
I’ve been to Mexico City several times for work in the last few months, each time staying in the Santa Fe neighborhood. I understand that about thirty years ago, that entire area was undeveloped woodland, and they decided t...
the last picture of this tree
About a year after we moved into this house, we had to cut down an old, triple-trunked birch tree in the backyard. It was unhealthy and thinning, and large limbs were starting to fall. It wasn’t safe for the kids ...
Have you ever just wasted a whole month? I was going to say “burned” a whole month, but that particular verb implies that you took some kind of action. Burning something means you found a match, kindling, accelerant, whatever. No, I mean wasted, like...
subsumed
I’ve been one poor correspondent, I’ve been too, too hard to find. It’s been a busy couple of weeks. Thanksgiving, and now Nutcracker week, and it shows no signs of slowing down for a while. I’m kicking around some i...
yay fall
I’ve said this before, but this time I mean it. I’m going to try to revive here a tradition from the ancien régime, “Friday Five,” which was loosely defined as a collection of five relatively brief, unconnected thing...
On the morning of Thursday, March 5, Hell Year, I was getting ready to check out of the Westin in Waltham, Massachusetts, my home away from home for most of the previous year. Without thinking too much about it, I threw the little vial of lavender o...
