When you start getting unsolicited offers from people wanting buy your house, I’d say the market has definitely turned around. We got this letter in the mail yesterday, with no return address. Gerald, it’s clear, is talking about a top-dollar offer. You can tell because he has spared no expense in his property acquisition […]
I’m dreaming of a nice condo
A few weeks ago we made a deal to have a new roof put on this old house. Since then it’s been raining off and on, either fitfully or in earnest, and the project hasn’t gone as quickly as I’d hoped. It’s raining again today — right after the crew stripped the ancient metal […]
It’s time to give back all those stolen carts
As you’re probably aware, February is “Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month.” That means you’ve only got three more days to round up all the stray carts on your property and wheel those babies back. Go ahead and use the middle of the street for this purpose; everybody else does. Presumably you’ll be […]
For Petula, whenever I may find her
Last night I had a dream involving Petula Clark. I encountered her on a street in London and someone was there to take our picture together — one of those fatuous, grinning selfies meant to imply that Petula and I were great friends. She pretended to kiss me on the cheek. Two things struck […]
Tonya Harding’s secret, sort-of, admirer
Put me in Team Tonya. I guess that makes me an army of one. Yeah: It’s tough to sympathize with the roughneck skater even all these years later. She was never what you’d call likable, and never admitted any role in the idiotic plot to cripple Olympics-rival Nancy Kerrigan — even though, if you […]
A stroll past Friendship Fountain
I no longer make New Year’s resolutions per se, but this time of year I do remind myself of some old ones. Getting at least 10,000 steps a day, for example. Today it was warm and sunny after a few days of being cold and rainy, so Tess and I walked the bridges downtown. […]
Happy New Year. Even if it isn’t.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot? Probably not, but life goes on, you know? One of the few things I really loved about the movie When Harry Met Sally was Billy Crystal’s frank admission that he didn’t know what the hell “Auld Lang Syne” was supposed to mean. I don’t either. But if I’ve had […]
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