I’m sorry I was missing at the end of last week and didn’t post as I normally do on Thursday. I have been having a bit of a hard ti...

This was my desk at the end of the workday Tuesday night. Tuesday is layout day at the newspaper. Here’s the basic process: I...

If you’ve read my blog posts this week, you know that it has been a very anxious time of late. But even during the bad times, we can stil...

I keep this photograph of Chase Bird on my computer desktop at work. It's a favorite.  A couple of weeks ago, we took Chase Bird ...

Last week while I was down in the basement organizing, I found some things I thought I had lost forever. I thought I had lost my first pi...

 Ant on a wildflower.  Do you ever feel too tired to sleep? That’s the way I feel as I write this. My body feels like all the energ...

 Chase Bird  Soft, slow music, no words. A cat purring his own music. Meditation. The other evening, I did all the right things. ...

From Microsoft images http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/results.aspx?qu=music&ex=2 I started picking out songs by ear on t...

Years ago I attended a Roberta Flack concert in Roanoke, where she sang with the Roanoke Symphony. I wrote a poem about the experience. I wa...

This week I’ve been building my posts around the five senses. Today, I consider the sense of hearing. Loud noises bother me. A lot. Noisy r...

Girls at the Piano, by Renoir. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Renoir23.jpg . I’ve written about books and cats and mandalas and other...