My deck overlooks the woods. The sun is behind the trees all morning, so the deck is in the shade. When there is a gentle breeze blowing – even if it is nearly 90

I was listening to a podcast and the incidental background music reminded me of Always Saturday [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPwtNm5pfqE] by Guadalcanal Diary, an 80s band from Georgia. Because we

A news helicopter was circling near my house for several hours and the noise was penetrating. There was a time that one made Vietnam vet flashback jokes when a helicopter flew overhead, but

It’s hard to get nostalgic over watermelon seeds, but they don’t exist anymore. They have been bred out of the fruit, which means that all new watermelons are grown from grafts,

Last year I was surprised that I managed to read 40 books. It was a mix of fiction, non-fiction and a few marketing books thrown in. That felt like a lot of books.