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I’ve often been asked if I ever feel self-indulgent with “all this time to just write.” It’s an innocent enough question, but my response is pretty clear: If a lawyer wakes up in the [...]

[Partial view of the Paul Green Room, where I’m staying for 4 weeks] Even before anyone mentioned the ghosts, it occurred to me that I might have seen one at Weymouth. Mind you, I’ve never seen a [...]

[A sampling of flowers from the garden off one of several patios surrounding the Boyd House] Not all those who wander are lost. It’s a favorite bumper sticker around the Pacific Northwest, [...]

[I have safely arrived, a nearly impossible task if it weren’t for THE CLAW and it’s determined grasping for the next great thing.] Never mind starting with a 16-hour flight delay, the [...]

I don’t often identify with the word “patriotic” but that’s how I feel when I listen to someone like Lyle Lovett. Consider his song titled “If I Had a Boat,” which begins with these lines: If I [...]

Fact: The U.S. spends $600 million per day on the war in Afghanistan. Fact: The calculated “human cost” of this war is the death of 2 U.S. soldiers per day. Fact: By September of this year there [...]

[Apologies for the sporadic posts the past few weeks. I’ve been burning the candle at both ends—writing & reading my heart out, just not doing much of it online.] Waiting to hear back from: [...]

I can get an episode of TOUR OF DUTY in during lunch. Depending on evening commitments, another short documentary on Iraq or Afghanistan that evening. That’s 40-120 minutes of war television [...]

[The Hofbrau this winter] [The Hofbrau this spring…] It’s not even five ‘o clock, but Leon Hammerhead and I are on our second round at The Hofbrau and he’s telling me to keep doing exactly [...]

One night, there are 5 performances in 5 separate locations on campus. The next night, 7,000 people are on campus to see Bela Fleck. I get to sit dead-center, twenty rows back. The faculty’s [...]