Not so hot under the collar

How long does it take for a hot-water heater to properly warm up its contents?
Facing that question, I sit here dirty and moody while the water heater fulfills its destiny in my basement.
From a Karma standpoint it’s probably fortunate that the water heater pilot went out last night. There are errands on my docket for [...]

Update, six-months in (approx.)

SIx months into the Sabbatical (it’s really about five, but who’s counting) and I’m just finding out what it means to be adrift in the world of journalists, columnists and writers.
Truthfully, I’ve been writing as a journalist for about 20 years but this is my first ‘no-net’ performance on the journalism stage.
It’s difficult at times, [...]

Slight Irony

Is there anything that qualifies as a slight irony?
In my mind, things are either ironic or they’re not. And things that are coincidences are not ironic. But I won’t rant about that distinction because Alanis Morrisette has already ruined the brains of a whole generation of people who may never realize the difference.
If Alanis wer [...]

The “Wish I wrote that” file

It’s not frequently that I find myself wishing that someone else’s prose was my own. Except for Hemingway and Parker and Block and Tapply and a few others. But what I’m getting at is the reticence I have to really wish an article or column had been my idea.
Today is an exception. Aside from the [...]

It’s been insanity

Not exactly go-off-the-deep-end type of insanity, but it’s been mega busy around here.
Finally have wrapped up a bunch of projects (some work for the Boston Globe, the auction booklet for Grampy’s, started recording my questions for Randy Cohen, *this is a past link, I’ll link to my readings when they appear* and am working on [...]

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