Category: and so it goes

• On Holiday

  Lost & Found is baking cookies and watching old movies until further notice. See you at the next potluck. * * *

• The Storytellers

  They told me in school that an oral tradition was primitive, left to the lesser ones doomed to be conquered, absorbed and assimilated, or just…

• Food From Here

  Six months ago I started a podcast at my local public radio station. It’s focused on the local food scene here in Southern Indiana, a…

• Potluck

  It’s been cold and wet, and the dirt path through the woods is slick with mud that clings to the soles of my shoes. The…

• The Woods You Have

  The woods beckon but it has been cold. I’m reluctant to put on shoes, the cat is not eager to see me go. He knows…

• Solstice II

  A year is a long time. Hello. Let’s call it a sabbatical, from the Hebrew, sabbath, a rest from toil, even though it really wasn’t…

• Solstice

  When Jason Kottke of Kottke.org went on sabbatical for seven months I missed his blog terribly, so I was happy he returned this month with…

• The Holidays Pt. I

  As one half of a shared-parenting divorced couple, I have some experience with solo holidays, those years when the kid was with the ex and…

• The Midterms

  After spending election night at my radio station babysitting the live feed for NPR’s election coverage so that I might add the hourly legal ID…

• An Economy of Astonishment

  Earlier this year Wired founder Kevin Kelly shared 103 bits of advice in a post on the occasion of his 70th birthday. It was a…