I haven't decided if I need Google Chrome, Google's new browser, at home. I'm test driving it at the day job because it's a ...

Wouldn't it be cool if it were Michael Palin who was appearing in the Twin Cities?

The last few weeks have been a bit hectic, reading and writing for school while juggling other projects and the day job. The flip side is th...

Once upon a time, OK, according to electronic time stamps it was 2/3/2007 and 2/9/2007, I must have been fooling around with Google Document...

Climbed into the second floor of the cat fort. Curled up, went to sleep. 07:23 a.m. Aug. 19 Climbed out of the second floor of the cat fort ...

There are some points at which my day job and my real self and even the blog me converge. I'm a web monkey much of the time, so when a ...

A lot of people came to my mom's wake, people I had not seen in some time. Among the guests were students she taught long ago. They told...

Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go. --Henry Austin Dobson This is the doleful fact, you have to go home again for funerals ...

The phone call is never expected even though it's not totally unexpected. When the phone rang this morning, I thought it was Christine ...

Miss Daisy spent the time I was away at the vet. He took the opportunity to do new blood tests and gave her a good report for the time be...

Well, I'm back from my first residency at Goddard College's MFA program, a week on the peninsula in Port Townsend, WA. That's wh...

(I should start by saying I had a very nice conversation with a very nice man at Continental Airlines Customer Care center last night. He wa...

I signed up for Twitter not long ago as the posts at the right may have hinted. It's a quick way to fire out blog notes from just abou...

Steve , who blew the continent a few years ago in what had to be a big sail out of safe harbor, noted an old saying the other day. Ships are...

Christine thinks Monty, the senior tomcat, may be trying to kill her. Unfortunately Christine has the straight man role in our household,...

I'm about a month away from a plunge into a new experience. That's not the cause for the scarcity of posts from me of late. That dea...

This will not be the day. She sits purring on my knee Or crouches in the corner Near British mysteries and unread Micheners Destined t...

Erik notes that Congress passed a veto-proof package to bolster rail travel . I'm all for it! We should have done it years ago. Ironical...

Wayne reminded me that I'd missed the first episode of Fear Itself by mentioning in an e-mail that he'd taped it from NBC Thursda...

Wow, how did I not know of Runrig ? They are not well known in the U.S. I suppose, but I am a bit of a follower of the British Isles. Someho...