by admin | Oct 30, 2014 | News
In researching my recent column on Altoids, those “curiously strong” mints in the nifty tin containers, I came across pictures of a miniature guitar amp housed in an Altoid tin, and learned that someone was selling kits to make them on Etsy.com. Naturally, I had to...
by admin | Oct 23, 2014 | News
I wrote last week of a happy marriage by way of Edward Lear’s nonsense poem, “The Owl and the Pussy-cat,” with its Bong-Tree and runcible spoon. I’ve always been fond of nonsense poems, and the Victorian variety in particular, exemplified by Mr. Lear and...
by admin | Oct 16, 2014 | News
Twenty years ago today, I was sitting on the balcony of the Morrison-Clark Historic Inn with my brand-new wife, watching Washington D.C.’s L-Street commuters hurtle to work. It was a splendid fall morning. We’d just polished off some delicious smoked...
by admin | Oct 9, 2014 | News
There I was, working away on the new novel. It was a Tuesday just like any other Tuesday until, midway through a particularly thorny passage, a dark veil came down across my screen, accompanied by the words, “You need to restart your computer.” This was somewhat...
by admin | Oct 2, 2014 | News
I’ve recently been enjoying the effects of a tiny blue pill. No, not that tiny blue pill — although I will say that the results have been immediate and prodigious. The pills I’m talking about are oval; ribbed on one side; and available over the...
by admin | Sep 25, 2014 | News, Uncategorized
Some of you may remember that last December marked a milestone in my life on St. Peter’s Church Road: my first successful deer hunt. And while it may have come thirty-five years late, by some reckoning, it was nevertheless as exciting — and troubling...
