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Sunday Summary for 26 September 2021, or, links to what I’ve...
I seem to have settled on biweekly writing updates, which serve the purpose well enough. The aim is unchanged: an every-other-Sunday compendium of links here...
Archipelago Travels
Technically Challenged
From 2009: “Senior editor graces inner pages of Today’s Woman magazine,...
Egads.
I'd completely forgotten about this photo op and interview, fortunately recorded at NA Confidential (August 5, 2009). Noting that for the moment I cannot...
Miscellany
Let’s just round off at $15 million for the Reisz Mahal,...
There'll be an open house next week to "celebrate" one of the most wasteful expenditures in recent civic memory, New Albany's shiny new city...
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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 77: A “tight” 1998 European summer (San...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 76: A boy can dream – about beercycling (and a Requiem for Moose).
Authors note: My installments have...
Diary for 27 July 2021: I really hate having to drive a car to...
The point of these "diary" entries is to write as the mood strikes me, in the moment.
The past few weeks I've made many, perhaps...
40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 75: My shoes are filled with Volga...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 74: Down a rabbit hole, deep into the Belgian beer paradise (1998).
Insofar as ordinary Americans know to...
The River Heritage Conservancy offers the case for Silver Creek low head dam removal
In a moment, the case for removing the Providence Mill low head dam on Silver Creek, courtesy of the River Heritage Conservancy.
But first, a...
Diary
“Howard Zinn’s July 4 Wisdom Stands the Test of Time,” followed with a rant...
Howard Zinn, Mark Twain, Edwin Moses and me, but first, Frederick Douglass. Dave Zirin, one of a select group of sportswriters who really matter,...
Diary for 7 September 2021: Time to learn
I was awake early this morning, and started listening to WUOL 90.5, Louisville's classical station.
It took me back to the early 1980s, the period...
Diary: The story of the Sladek (brewer/maltster) stone at Fairview Cemetery
We bought our house in downtown New Albany in 2003, and by the following spring casual neighborhood walks had become a regular weekend feature...
When I’m 64? Now that I’m 64? Can we go back to Europa yet?
If memory serves, we sang snippets of this song by The Beatles in swing choir during high school. I never really imagined it would...
Diary for 28 July 2021: “Craft” is especially nonsensical when tacked to “hard” seltzer
The point of these “diary” entries is to write as the mood strikes me, in the moment.
I'd suggest we piss on hard seltzer, but...
Recipes for Chaos
MLK Day, 2026
I was not quite eight years old when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in April of 1968, and consequently, my memories of...
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40 Years in Beer: It’s time for another breather. See you in a bit
For me, the biggest impediment to writing is putting the first word into the machine, knowing how much it's going to hurt before I'm...
