by admin | Dec 13, 2012 | News
The Great Hunt of 2012, as I’ve been calling it in emails to puzzled and somewhat disappointed friends, apparently involved me in not one, but two primal activities: hunting, yes, of course; followed by obsessive story-telling about the hunt. Last week’s...
by admin | Dec 6, 2012 | News
The fact that this year’s deer hunt was my first ever came as a kind of shock to my neighbors on St. Peters Church Road. “Your first time?” they said, with a mixture of wonder, and perhaps even a little embarrassment on my behalf....
by admin | Nov 29, 2012 | News
The Olshans are now in the sixth year of a running experiment: is it possible to take a child with a tin ear and turn her into a concert cellist? I can already hear the objections welling up from the grandparents. “A tin ear? How dare you say that about our...
by admin | Nov 22, 2012 | News
Road rage is deadly serious, but that doesn’t mean it can’t bring a smile to your face. Take, for example, the story a friend of mine likes to tell about the day he won the lottery. It wasn’t a huge win, not a life-changing one, anyway —...
by admin | Nov 15, 2012 | News
I’m a sucker for a hand-made gift. One of the happiest moments of my life was when my daughter gave me a very realistic three-foot shark with a laser attached to its head that she’d made out of gray and white duct tape. This was the culmination of an...
by admin | Nov 8, 2012 | News
In the past week, the nation has suffered two great paroxysms: a once-in-a-generation “superstorm,” and a presidential election. History will be the judge of which of these storms was the more expensive and destructive, but from this citizen’s...
