Things are weird

It seems an exaggeration to call it a "dystopian reality", but the news this week was one gut-punch after another. The stock market plummeted day after day into bear-market territory. All sports has been canceled: professional, college, and kids. So have concerts - devastating blow to the performing arts groups that run on tight budgets. …

Take me out to the ballgame

We went to see the Washington Nationals last night. I lucked into four tickets through work, so Steve and I brought Seth and Ross. It was hot and steamy and sticky, almost unbearably so, but we were very brave and (mostly) stoically suffered through it until the middle of the 8th inning, at which point …

I ate my feelings today

I AM FEELING RATHER RAW after yet another school shooting yesterday. Here we are again - AGAIN! - having the same debate. Nothing has changed.  (Much) more on that in a sec. I wasn't making any friends or changing any minds on social media as I got into it with strangers, and couldn't think of …