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A week or so ago, I took a week-long trip to see family. It was a multi-stage trip collecting one family member en route, and another one on...

Image: SusanAlisonArt Question from 5-year-old granddaughter: “Do you know the slimiest creature on earth?” Thinks: Sleazebag Guy where I wo...

  The week began with a spin on the bike, and was to end — not that I knew it at the time — with something more centrifugally challenging. A...

  I arrive home. A dapper, rotund chap, in a brown suit, is rummaging inside our porch. Seeing me, he gives a start of surprise and dives be...

  We live in an area of big skies. I guess everyone does really, but we get to see a lot of ours. No mountains blocking the view, no skyscra...

I wrote about tomato anxiety a week ago.  It’s a thing in our house because we grow too many.  Growing fewer isn’t an option. I know, I know...

  It’s that time of year when we have some red-hot days and think it’s summer, only for the weather to cry “Fooled you!” and drench us with ...