NPR has a story about it almost every day during All Things Considered. CNN.com and other media outlets have literally hundreds of articles about it. The current White House administration seems to bring it up whenever they aren’t talking about how quickly the economy is going to shake its current “hangover.” I don’t follow [...]
One of the reasons why I’m not a good creative writer is that I suffer from what I call “writer’s brick.” No, that’s not a typo — I don’t mean writer’s block I mean writer’s brick. Writer’s brick occurs when a person writes using, you guessed it, a “brick” rather than a “stream.” (For [...]
After swimming laps (or more appropriately, doggy-paddling them) in the community pool, Heidi and I decided to take a quick dip in the hot tub. We were relaxing and talking about the upcoming week when we were joined by an older woman, probably in her sixties. After a few more minutes we decided we [...]





