Monday, September 29, 2014. is this thing on? 4,008 miles, one unabridged listening-through of the fellowship of the ring, a couple of albanys and a smattering of oaklands and maybe some springfields, one portland to another, about a bazillion stalks of corn, and it would appear that i have relocated to maine. the houses are old and gorgeous and ramshackle and peeling and falling.

Life, love, and the pursuit of running children. Tuesday, August 7, 2012. He was a complicated man. My grandfather was a strong, hard, stubborn, uncompromising, controlling, unhappy, driven man. He was a man for whom nothing was ever quite right. not growing up, when his mother - a cold woman - clearly preferred his brother and showered him with treats and rewards while grandpa had to work for everything.