Friday, February 27, 2015
Happiness is a shelf full of color coded books
4:15 PM

The fact that I didn’t know I wanted to be a Librarian until my mid (ok, late) thirties is a little mystifying. Aside from my lifelong obsession with books and libraries and the fact that I’ve been extraordinarily close to not one, not two, but three librarians in my life (none of whom were related to me), both of which could simply be symptoms of...
I’m a sap for hobbies
1:08 PM

I once read that “collecting” is the most common hobby among Americans. I can buy that, because I collect. Hobbies that is.I love hobbies. They give me a needed break from the everyday world, allow me to focus both my mind and pocketbook on the trivial and provide for me a unique sense of identity.But as much as I love hobbies, I have a devil of...
Friday, February 20, 2015
Linger and Stay
4:25 PM

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A beach, a song and such a 60’s day
10:30 AM

Salt air, bright sun, bronzed bodies – how can anyone not like a trip to the beach? I’ve had the good fortune to bake my bones on beaches from Southern California to the Mediterranean to the Caribbean. I’ve even shivered on the gravel that passes for a beach on the Oregon coast. But one beach, too far from home, continues to haunt me. In 1966, my...
Friday, February 13, 2015
3:01 PM

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Hearts of my heart
10:15 AM

I am not an artist.I remind myself of this about this time of year when my heart overrides my talent. I love my wife, Cecile, dearly. But on Valentine’s Day I try to say that in something besides words.Despite the lexicon of romance authors, you can’t “make love.” You live love, you give love and you bask in love. And you make the objects and activities...
Friday, February 6, 2015
4:19 PM

It’s raining buckets here in Portland. We lucked out with several unseasonably warm and dry weeks in January and now, as the weather gods are wont to do, we are being made to pay for it with that particular kinds of bone chilling rain that seems to define winter in the Northwest. And so, of course,...
I can’t get no satisfaction. But I can hum it.
9:25 AM

When you hit about 60, you get a free pass to be annoying. Annoying kids are just pests, but annoying old men are just, well, old men. By now I’ve perfected all 50 Shades of Gray Irritations, but there is one I have employed for as long as I remember.I hum.I’ve suffered countless elbow jabs and shooshing fingers over the years, but it has only become...
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