What do you say to an old friend who lives on the other side of the country when he reports some good news? In the…
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What do you say to an old friend who lives on the other side of the country when he reports some good news? In the…
That old chaos hag Courtney Egan has done a great installation at Banks and Broad. Check it out. Similar idea: Someone put a marker up…
A friend of mine from Indiana recently wrote the following in an online discussion: I don’t want to argue the point as I don’t have…
I arrived at work yesterday morning to discover a sign on the front door of our office suite: Happy Administrative Assistants Day! The sign had…
Motivated by a desire to get in shape, I purchased memberships at the Jewish Community Center for Xy and myself. I’m more motivated than Xy,…
There was only one ‘U’ movie on our list: Under Fire, 1983. Nick Nolte is a photographer running around Nicaragua with Gene Hackman and Joanna…
I feel like I’m just waking up from a week-long funk. The beatdown in front of our house really disturbed me. Then, when Milo went…
On Sunday, April 22nd, I noticed a number of orange notices posted on houses on Bienville, some on the 3000 block, some on the 3200…
I was just getting ready to post about how sick I am of living amidst piles of garbage, when I came across the latest from…
We haven’t seen Milo since I put him and Crybaby out of the bedroom this morning for making too much noise. He missed breakfast and…
Somehow or another I’m going to Harvard next month for a leadership conference at the Kennedy School of Government. Apparently the Broadmoor Civic Improvement Association…
Xy came home from visiting with a friend yesterday evening to discover that our block was a crime scene. Police had the street blocked off…
We continue to make our way through the alphabet, and we’re entering the homestretch. Ordinarily I make a note of my thoughts on a movie…
Remember the guerrilla art installation I wrote about in November? On the Jeff Davis neutral ground, a pitcher of water was suspended over a map…
33 dead, 15 injured. Sometimes the news seems so unreal. I tried to make it real. I tried to imagine this happening at Indiana University,…
Here it is eight days later, and my head is still stuck in Easter Sunday. I keep thinking back to a conversation I had with…
Xy and I took part tonight in the third City Walk sponsored by Silence Is Violence. The concept is simple: People gather at a designated…
Just in via e-mail, don’t know much about it, but it looks interesting… As the political season approaches, we invite friends, neighbors and colleagues to…
This past week people around the country have been all atwitter because of some remarks made by Don Imus on his radio show. Here in…
I got a note today from Dr. Paul. (I finally put pen to paper and wrote him a letter last month.) By sheer coincidence, tonight…