It has been a tough couple of weeks. Four days of post-vaccination malaise, followed by a routine maintenance visit for my car that became a $1600 bill, in turn followed by juggling writing of a trial brief in my law... Read More ›

With my legs still sore from the slopes and my arm throbbing after my second COVID vaccination shot, my friend Steve looked me in the eye and demanded we commit a murder: “We have to kill Vernon!” I had just... Read More ›

Last Spring folks reacted very strongly to my description of the delivery of newly hatched chicks by the U.S. Postal Service. Many were surprised to hear that not only chicks but even considerably larger animals like horses were sent in... Read More ›

The news is understandably still full of stories about the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol. Investigators want to know how much was planned ahead and orchestrated by leaders, and how much resulted from spontaneous combustion of the crowd. Historians... Read More ›

The sun rose January 23, at 7:16 a.m., and set at 4:58 p.m., giving us 9 hours and 43 minutes of daylight. It’s not a dramatically different amount from the day before, or from last week, but this week I... Read More ›

I’m not sure if it’s accurate to describe the beginning of 2021 as an unsettling time. We’ve had nearly a year to adjust to the myriad ways in which COVID-19 has upended the way we live and interact with one... Read More ›

“You farm like a gay boy from the City.” These words once would have appeared in a nightmare in which I was exposed as an imitation farmer, a Marie Antoinette in a shepherd costume. But shockingly, it was me uttering... Read More ›

During a recent drive to the supermarket , I was struck by an NPR story about a contact tracer: A young mother kept apologizing to the caller for her child’s insistent crying in the background. The baby, she said, was... Read More ›

Remember that episode of I Love Lucy in which Lucy and Ethel take jobs at a chocolate factory, ultimately to be done in by their inability to keep up with wrapping the bon-bons rolling down the assembly line? Welcome to... Read More ›

I return to this bulletin after a brief break. It is the season when I feel comfortable in communicating less than weekly because there is virtually nothing being harvested in need of immediate sale. Not that that there’s nothing still... Read More ›