This is my 1,924th post on this blog, and my last, at least for a while. I am taking a sabbatical because I have some other writing that deserves my full attention. For that project, a partnership with my daughter Katherine, we have interviewed some very generous storytellers and we want to honor them as [...]
I hope you dance through your next decade. I hope you wake up every morning so grateful for the opportunities the day will bring that you twirl in front of your bedroom mirror. I hope I do too. I want my stocking feet to dance so commonly across my kitchen floor that my Swiffer only [...]
Water flowed back to the river I love and, with it came pelicans, eagles, deer and beautiful people. Most of those have been congregating along the river all along. But, I started to get worried about them all during March when I noticed the water levels near the Olde Oneida Bridge were alarmingly low. The [...]
I dressed like an eclipse Monday morning and heard Bonnie Tyler everywhere I went. Why wouldn't I? A total eclipse hardly ever happens and, when it does, you're going to want to turn around, bright eyes, to see it. But, when that moon slowly made its way past that sun and so many of us [...]
The path of totality went through Cleveland yesterday afternoon as South Carolina completed a perfect season by beating Iowa 87-75 in a game that saw rising stars, the bigs bang and the happy ascension of women's basketball on a global stage. Even a genuinely outstanding performance by the deep-space-nine Gamecocks could not eclipse the accomplishments [...]