The memorial service for poor Max Lentz wasn’t the only connection between Missoula and West Virginia a week and a half ago. My parents, who recently moved from the longtime family home in the D.C. suburbs to a small college town in West Virginia, were here in Missoula for a visit. As everyone knows, there’s [...]
Wasps keep getting into the house. Big, nasty-looking wasps. We find them crawling disconsolately on the sliding door to the deck, or sometimes on the living-room window. They must be weak, ready to die, because they often do. Right now there are four dead wasps in the tracks of A.’s office windows and the deck [...]
On Friday it finally dawned on me that, for all the locals’ talk about recent winters being “much warmer than usual,” winter here will be nothing to take lightly.
As I’ve mentioned, it’s been getting cool already, temperatures dropping into the thirties at night and rising back into the fifties — occasionally maybe only the [...]
I will be in Glacier National Park all weekend, fighting grizzly bears, “godless killing machines” that they are. So no posts until Tuesday morning. See you then!
One thing that’s been keeping me busy over the last few days has been putting the finishing touches on my professional web site. Check it out here if you’re interested, and please pass my name along if you hear of anyone looking for a freelance writer/editor.
No, not that one.
Author Linda Hirshman has an interesting post up at TPM Cafe on “Liberal Principles” (it’s part one of three). Or at any rate I find it interesting, because I’ve been spending a lot of time over the last couple of years thinking about what my principles are, and it’s interesting to [...]