On Being Simply True

On October 6 th (ironically my daughter’s birthday), PBS station KMOS out of St. Louis aired a documentary that explored the charges made a...

  You were once curious—well, you were always curious about human behavior, weren’t you?—about why I addressed people—colleagues and student...

  I sold my bike last week. The sweet blue Trek mountain bike that I salvaged from a Marketplace app and put a hundred and fifty bucks into ...

Some weeks ago I had a thing to go to—a poetry reading or speaking engagement or somewhere that I couldn’t wear dog-walking attire and I had...

  Oof. This post will be really tough to write…. If you’ve ever purchased a home, you’ve learned that a “charming cottage” is realtor code...

I did something stupid yesterday. I mean, don’t get me wrong; I do something mildly stupid every single day, those little idiocies I usually...

  Very early one morning in this past week, Miss Maudie and I did a quiet walk in Bogart Regional Park, one of our favorite places to chase ...