Here is my blog entry from last Christmas, back by popular demand. It made people smile a year ago, and I hope it rings in a chuckle this time, too. Happy holidays! We’ll see you on the other side. I’m old, and have made peace with myself, mostly. I suppose you could call it “set […] More >>
Archives for December 2011
He’s Got a Scrooge Loose
Almost Christmas. Flurries outside my window. Sweet scent of balsam fir from our little tree downstairs. I can feel my inner Scrooge coming to life as it does this time every year, rather like the monster in Alien bursting out of that poor spaceman’s abdomen. Kane, his name was. Just before the creature exploded from […] More >>
Showing Up for Work
Captain of the China trade ship Vancouver takes on three chests of opium. See below. In the past couple of weeks I’ve bid on multiple items at auctions in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Ohio, and New York. Just about everything I bid on sold — not to me — at what I considered high retail […] More >>
Wool Gathering Season
“Wet Paper” — More below I love the interval between Thanksgiving and the New Year. I love to watch the world pull back inside itself, awaiting winter’s rigors. The lowering sun; the late afternoon blaze of orange through gray clouds; the cheering wood stove (soon to wear out its welcome); the holiday feeds; the Sunday […] More >>