Category: Blog
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Osteria in Ravello.
Peder Severin Krøyer, 1890
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A list of blog posts I read 1st half of 2025
Here’s a list I was keeping in a text file of the blogs/articles/essays I was reading through the first half of this year. Before I started keeping a lot of them here. I was quite good about logging each piece I read and have since dropped off. Title: Blogs and essays I’ve read Tags: blogs,…
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What a weekend for Sadie
Two big ones to note for Sadie this weekend: Super proud of Sade. Very excited for her and what’s to come with the personal training. Tonight, we’re celebrating with pizza, salad, and wine. Just wanted to remember 🙂
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Dinner, Friends, Stories we Tell
Tonight, I had dinner with the band. That’d be Griffin, Paul, Doug, and Taylor. All my “mates” as the kids would call them, but way of Bluey. It was very real conversation. The kind that is about something. The kind that tries, with some kind of strain, to say something about the way things are…
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Into My Arms
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 1997 We got up in two phases this morning. Shepherd first, going to school. Greta and Goldie next, going nowhere thankfully. As it all started up, changing a diaper (Goldie) and getting a banana (Greta), I think I just got lucky and caught a sense of its beauty. And…
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Old Hymns
A friend I grew up with is going through a big health shock. Emergency surgery. Waiting on pathology reports. The stuff that gets shared in group texts to ask for hope and prayer. It’s really got me. He’s my age and has kids my kids ages. He is like me. I could be him. So…
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Clay Pigeons
Sadie often signs this song to the kids and I just want the lyrics here. Originally, this is Blaze Foley. We’ve played his The Dawg Years vinyl many times at the house and John Prine also has a good cover it. Today, Sadie sent me a video of her playing it on the guitar to…
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After Hurricane Helene
We’re on the anniversary of Hurricane Helene. I posted this on an old blog a few days after and wanted to bring it here. What a year, man! Hard to be grateful for deeply painful and tragic things, but the second and third order effects of that day and the first weeks and two months…
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Hansel Mieth
Let me say, I don’t “understand” art in the way that enthusiasts “understand” art. I look at art and sometimes I like it. It is unsophisticated and I like it that way. I discovered Hansel Mieth’s photography yesterday and I pretty instantly liked it.
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After Political Assassination
I still feel quite sad and down today. I have seen many thoughts on where we are as a country and how the assassination of Charlie Kirk yesterday makes our state of things even more precarious. I do not wish to participate in a doomsday sort of reflection, but I can’t help but think that…