Feathers and Flowers

After a morning of strenuous thrift store shopping, Amanda and I were starving as usual, and stopped the Mongolian Grill for lunch. It...

"Our" maple tree John Updike described his writing style as an attempt "to give the mundane its beautiful due." Updike...

I spent my first seven years on this farm in eastern Pennsylvania. Along with the cows we had chickens, ducks, geese and pigs. Our animals w...

Here's Nova playing in the neighborhood park where I used to take Amanda at about the same age. And making it seem like 30 years have p...

The Tea Garden menu Every few months, a group of John's Boeing work friends meet up for lunch in the International District, and I enjoy...

Light Verse It's just five, but it's light like six. It's lighter than we think. Mind and day are out of sync. The dog is restle...