As if I have fewer than two working brain cells, I decided to go for a bike ride on Western Pennsylvania’s hottest day in years – a humid 95 degrees. The plan was to get on the trail before 9, but that didn’t happen; figuring the temperatures would still be bearable if I got the ride in ...
The Kentucky eight have landed! For the past week, I’ve been tracking the eastward progress of my son and his fiancée as they made the 2,200-mile drive from Los Angeles to Lexington. My son began a new job there about a month ago, and as new jobs go, he went ahead first to get ...
In a move both delusional and courageous, I walked with my six-string down the cement stairs into a church basement one night last week to play and sing. This would not be a public performance so much as a semi-private chance to play for a few other people. It was a song circle, and I was ...
In my bathroom, on the floor far to the back of the counter area where the chair goes, is an orange lipstick. It has been there since last summer, long enough for the stick to go dry because the cap was off when I dropped it all those months ago. Two years ago, I would have bent over ...
My right knee. Good lord. It’s a saga, really; anyone in this age group who spent their teens and 20s and 30s (and in my case, 40s and 50s) running and cycling and chasing balls around a tennis court knows what my next paragraph will bring. The knee hurts now, some days more ...
The house tour came by way of the smartphone. “Here’s the nice big kitchen,” my son said. “And there’s the breakfast bar.” “You’ll need some bar stools to go there,” I said, and then we were on to the living room, a large and sunny space with a hardwood floor and one ...
