Those of you who can’t go more than a day without checking Fluid Imagination — which is to say, about a dozen of you — may have noticed things are a little slow this week. That’s because Dawn and I are in Chicago, doing the whirlwind tour of visiting friends and family.
I’m spending today, tomorrow, [...]
September 24, 2007 – 11:56 am
[Editor's Note: This is the best man's speech that I gave at Adam's wedding. A few of you who couldn't make it to the wedding asked me to post it, and Adam asked for a copy too, so here it is.]
The first time I met Sarah, it was only Adam’s second time meeting her. She [...]
March 26, 2007 – 01:47 pm
I drink a lot. Not “a lot” in the sense that I have a problem, but in the sense that my default nighttime drink is beer. How this came about is not important, but the short version is that I live in a college town and drinking is just what you do.
Unfortunately, for the [...]
March 19, 2007 – 11:28 am
We’ve all seen the photos of the people who took pictures of themselves every day for years, but this is the first time I’ve seen it done by a whole family over the course of 30 years. Check out Diego Goldberg :: The Arrow of Time.
January 19, 2007 – 01:23 pm
The words of love and respect that are supposed to flow from my lips, fail me. I am left with a scattering of memories from the misplaced time and years of my youth. I need to speak these words aloud to substantiate the memory of you, because now that is really all there is. My [...]
December 4, 2006 – 02:05 pm
As is the way of all things, Baggins my Basset Hound has left this mortal coil. He lived many good years North of Boston in Marblehead and Danvers, MA.
He took many trips around the Northeast charming hearts wherever he went. Many times he went to sea and made the journey to Nantucket or Martha’s Vineyard. [...]
September 8, 2005 – 10:00 am
11 competitors awoke with the sun on September 4th, their blood already pumping for the day’s events. Later that afternoon, with the roast cooking over the open fire at one end and the wind coming off the lake at the other end, they would face each other on the badminton court. The winner would walk [...]
I had a “No shit?” moment this morning (well, afternoon to normal people). So I’m laying there in bed, in that half-asleep/half-awake state, and I start to have a dream. But remember, I’m half-awake, so the whole time, I’m trying to figure out if I should call this a dream or a day-dream. Anyway, in [...]
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