2022 Highlights

As 2022 unfurled, we adapted to the realities of coronavirus endemicity. This was the year of make up trips (not 1, not » Read more

2021 Highlights

2021 was another doozy of a pandemic year. Pandemic year 2 started off well, Stump having being turned out decisively in November » Read more

Preamble How to sum up 2020? A year so chaotic, full of fear and fury, as to be life-altering, unforgettable and for » Read more

“April is the cruelest month.” (The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot, 1922) Throughout March, a line from Hamilton kept playing in my mind: “The » Read more

2019 was an active, hectic, and stressful year. The simmering concerns I had been harboring in recent years about my mother’s living » Read more

2018 was a year in which aging, mortality and illness reared their ugly heads, in the family and our circle of friends. » Read more

The short version I didn’t really try to set a new record for longest year’s end summary EVER, it was an EXCEPTIONALLY » Read more

One of my favorite shows as a child was the Time Tunnel, in which a pop art striped black and white time » Read more

Part 4: The Broken Stick Mary called to tell me that her beloved wooden-handled 20-year-old walking stick was broken. Me: “Can it » Read more