This post is overdue, and quick. It’s 10:15 and I almost broke my New Year’s resolution to write here daily. On Day 2. Something that keeps me going back to the cabin is the…

In case you’re just joining me here, Day One of this New Year, welcome! I’ve been blogging at this address since 2001, mostly in a scattered attempt to capture some observations and to share…

“You got to keep in the game; Retaining mystique while facing forward. I suggest a reading of a lesson in tightropes Or surfing your high hopes, or adios Kansas it is … ” *…

There is always a good reason to avoid writing here. Lately, it’s been because I have too much to say and don’t know where to begin. I was much better at this when I…

“A bewitching stillness reigns through all the woodland and over the snow-clad landscape.” – H D Thoreau. December 9, 1856 My sister popped by Walden yesterday to check on things and to turn off…

“If you get up and have a hot shower, you’ve already had a terrific day.” I forget who said this last week, probably someone on the radio musing about the January blues and imminent…

I’m 45 years old. After much prompting, the kids are slowly transitioning from calling me Old Man, to “Cactus” (Simon’s idea), or “Darth Father” (Jasper’s). I’ll take either. I hate getting older. The wisdom…

Fun Dip now comes with two candy sticks. I discovered this on Christmas Eve when a wide-eyed kid who had already had too much sugar stumbled into me and showed me the tangy candy…