Oh how I loathe khaki and dark blue
Getting everyone ready to go back to school is never easy on either the nerves or the wallet. The prep required is made even more difficult by the wide variety ...
Category: musings
Take a walk on the marshy side
Exit 9 off of I91 in North Haven, Connecticut is the epitome of suburban shopping mall sprawl at its worst. I’m sure it’s great for the town coffer...
Why does GenX love superhero movies so damn much?
We don’t have gods or goddesses. At least not in the same way those before us did. We found our own path to the Golden Rule, regardless of whomever is doi...
Construction update
The Star Supply project is moving along. After several months of the house shaking first from the destruction and then from the pile driving, we’re down t...
The Tome
I’ve been soooo stuck on this damn book. Just looking for those last few chapters and not being able to get pen to paper, fingers on keyboard. Only three ...
Final voyage for the Old Barge?
It’s all disassembled and packed up. New Haven’s Old Barge, possibly the last oyster barge in existence, is heading back home to New York City. It w...
A place for us?
I don’t deal well with change. I never have. I’ve lived in the same city since I was forcibly transplanted here thirty some odd years ago and have l...
Last call in New Haven
Couldn’t sleep last night. It was a bad pain night. One of those nights where I’m constantly turning over and around in bed like a chicken on a spit...
Open up a vein and bleed
I’ve been stalling since the spring on writing the last four sections of The Tome. Oh the irony. I’m 90 thousand words in and I can’t get the...
The sky is falling!
Everyone hates Chicken Little. For good reasons too. He’s annoying not only in his delivery method but also in the message. No one wants to hear it. But...