My grandmother on my mother’s side loved daytime drama. “The stories,” she called them, and talked about them as if they were real. Not wink-wink real, but real real. It was a mild form of insanity. Conversations about what the presidential candidates think or feel or what they might do or not do if elected […]
The experts say it’s all about killer instinct, the way cats stalk and chase leaves and bits of string. Whatever. I just like to watch them watch. Okay, man on the corner with the Bible tracts. I get it. You’re telling me that I have a choice. Heaven or Hell.You sense that something about me […]
Acadia and I won’t go to Bar Harbor this year, but we will go to Ocracoke Island. We’ll stay at a pet-friendly motel there called The Island Inn and hope that its 32 Trip Advisor “excellent” ratings were posted by people whose reasonable expectations were exceeded, whereas its 28 “terrible” ratings were posted by people […]
