by admin | Jul 28, 2011 | News
I’m not very good at writing short stories, which makes me admire the geniuses of the short form all the more. A good short story – like a good column – aims for its ending like a rifle shot. And just as the “crack!” of a rifle...
by admin | Jul 21, 2011 | News
It started like any other mid-July zucchini-roasting session. Balance the tray beside the trusty Weber grill. Turn on the propane. Wait a few seconds. Click the igniter. But this time, there was no satisfying “whoompf!” I gave it a few more seconds. Then a...
by admin | Jul 14, 2011 | News
If you’ve ever sat in a pediatrician’s waiting room, you’ve probably met a pair of comic strip characters named Goofus and Gallant. Goofus, a pudgy little miscreant with rebellious hair, has been behaving badly in the pages of Highlights...
by admin | Jul 7, 2011 | News
It’s dusk on a humid summer evening. Your heart pounds with anticipation. This is Warm Springs, the road you’ve been warned about but can’t resist. You take it slow, rolling on despite the danger signs, your tires crunching the moist gravel. Shermans...
by admin | Jun 30, 2011 | News
One summer, a few years after we moved onto St. Peter’s Church Road, I turned on the television to watch the Wimbledon final. The championship match was broadcast on NBC, which was lucky, because that was the only channel we got. And by “got,” I mean...
by admin | Jun 23, 2011 | News
If there’s an opposite to a peaceful June evening on St. Peter’s Church Road, when the moist evening air rolls off the flank of Blue Mountain and flushes an armada of hopeful fireflies from the field grass, it has to be rush hour in Manhattan in the...
