Two people in as many days have died on the streets as Louisville settles into the first cold snap of the year. One of them died next to...

All things are made bitter, words even / are made to taste like paper, wars gets tossed up / like soldiers used to be/ (in a child's a...

  I'm heading back to campus today to line up the last bit of what I need to do in order to teach on Thursday. Between the usual declin...

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly. - Arthur Carlson, WKRP IN CINCINNATI Probably the most succinct explanation I've ever...

And the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity. - quote from opening credits to WKRP IN CINCINNATI Ch...

Walking back to the bar after dark I passed our old street. Looking down and up the hill, I noticed the porch lights were on and I almost tu...

It is the waking that kills us. - Sir Thomas Browne M y first sense memory of Mount Carroll is the sound of my friend and current host (al...

Hauling ass out of the Appalachian foothills, I wasn't sure the car would make the trip. Two rusted off back quarter panels, exhaust pip...

There is no resolution, sometimes. Arguments over things less or more important matter more or less in an endless geography that makes up a ...

I did it. And I did it without you. Hobbled around, (as is my custom these days) until I found the Rothkos in the National Gallery. Then I s...

Imagined it all somewhat different. Rather, bold. Magnificent. Brightly lighted mini marquees. Macabre parades. Acquiescing smiles. Lim...

Main Street is crooked, runs right past City Hall, the police station, empties right in front of the University Administration building. Al...

Shadows pass on the other side of frosted glasses. I can make out trees, the shapes of hills, traces of Interstate 74. 45 minutes out I know...

"I love it when a plan comes together." - John "Hannibal" Smith  The original title of this entry was going to be "...

The taste of last night's beer lingered this morning. Three in the morning, I can't sleep. That voice in my head, the one that's...

The streets have been cleared and the previous night's freeze packed the last snow fall, eliminating the drifts covering Illinois 64 t...

1 . December early morning sunshine it fools me into believing the earth is warm. But one step outdoors and the cold wind rippling my bearde...

C hrist. 388 days and the tundra is still expansively contracting. Fields of green and brown corn have turned shit and soil brown, laced wit...

Winter breeds patience out of desperation. There is no instant gratification When the snow plow buries you alive And your only connection wi...

Up before the sun – eyes pop open thanks to internal alarm clock and the fear that the garbage men dug them- -selves out last night. Pull o...