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Yes, we do week birthdays and month birthdays, all in the belief that celebrating delight is never a bad thing, but this one is the real deal: Sweet B is a year old today, a busy, walking little person with … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2009
I’ll be in Oxford the second week in August, participating in one of those old-folks summer courses, at Merton College, and I expect to learn a bit about British art and archetecture of the late 18th Century, meet some interesting … Continue reading
Milwaukee is the home of Harley-Davidson, and last week I attended an event at the Harley museum, where they have a line-up of hogs visitors can pose on. This comically unattractive scooter, a veritable motorized icon of irony, was more … Continue reading
Paul was telling me the other day about this urban park created from an elevated railway. Pretty cool. … Continue reading
At the end of my junior year in high school, I was presented with something called the Harvard Book Award, a volume gorgeously bound in crimson, unfortunately containing the collected works of Nathan Pusey, that university’s president. Even then I … Continue reading
I’m briefly back in the upper Midwest: Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This is a beer town, and yesterday I had a good lunch and a good pint at a well-known brew pub on the river. They were playing music over their sound … Continue reading
The writers of this post amusingly recommend ten books that should be “fired from the canon.” I must admit that I hadn’t even heard of all of them, and that I’ve read a bare majority (and most of those so … Continue reading
…my shufflin’s a stinkin’ thing. Feeling the way the great Emil Zatopek often looked— —(our only similarity), I staggered through a truly rotten run yesterday morning, just when I was thinking of stretching it out a little. I had the … Continue reading
For those interested in kit, I’ve just come across a useful video on the Patagonia site. If you go here, and click on the video camera icon beneath the illustration of the pullover, you’ll get a short rundown on the … Continue reading
In a local paper this past week, an area businessman was called, “[a] true Englishman in the best sense.” God knows what the reporter meant (“not a football hooligan” is probably insufficiently precise), but it made me chuckle, because I … Continue reading