Archives
- ENGLISH VILLAGE HOLIDAY
- BOOK NOTES
- WORTHLESS EDUCATION
- BREAKING NEWS!!!
- LIVING IN THE PAST
- CHRISTMAS MEMORIES
- ON THE TOWN
- Hey! WHO YOU CALLING OLD?
- I MISS THE CARD CATALOG
- MIXED FEELINGS
- A FINE SPRING DAY IN NEW YORK
- Christian Belief and American Health Care
- A RIP VAN WINKLE MORNING
- Not for Sale at CVS
- NO MORE SITTING IN DOG PISS
- A STUMP SPEECH I’D LIKE TO HEAR
- CHEATING DEATH THROUGH SEVENTEEN-DOLLAR INK
- HERE’S TO YOU, BILL GRUBER
- AN AUGUST DAY IN NEW YORK
- TWO BIRTHDAYS
- ISOLATION ADVENTURE
- MY LIFE, MY EXPERIENCE. THE CAUSE OF TRUMPISM
- THE PRESENCE OF MURRAY KEMPTON
- REFLECTIONS ON A PARK BENCH
- AN ALMOST PERFECT OCCASION OF NATIONAL UNITY
- CHERRY TREES
- ONE FLESH
- I DIDN’T HAVE A MOM
- A GIFT BEYOND MEASURE
- BILL GATES VS JESUS
- ONE DAY IN AMERICA
- OVERSTATMENT!!! WORSE THAN CLIMATE CHANGE!!!
- THANKSGIVING. ALWAYS THE SAME, NEVER THE SAME
- BACK TROUBLE, PART TWO
- BACK TROUBLE: SOME ANCILLARY ISSUES
- THE SUICIDE BOMBER NEXT DOOR
- THE BLUES HIGHWAY
- GOOD TRADE
- A FRESH START
- SIGNS OF THE TIMES
- HEARING AIDS AND RAND MCNALLY
- SUNDAY DRIVE
- CULINARY PERSEVERATION
- SNOWSTORM IN OLD AGE
- COVID BLUES
- A CHRISTMAS TREE MIRACLE
- THANKSGIVING IN THE TIME OF COVID
- ELECTION WEEK ENCOUNTERS
- MOMENTS OF RELIEF IN A FRAUGHT TIME
- FROM “SCORCHED EARTH” TO “REAR-GUARD ACTION”: POLITICAL TROPES
- MY RIVER
- FARMERS’ MARKET, NEW YORK CITY
- HOPPER-CUM-PIGEONS
- UNICORNS, THE UPPER WEST SIDE, AND OTHER CONSTRUCTS
- STAND EASY, JACK. RELAX, TANNER. HAVE A TOMATO SANDWICH.
- COVID-19 MEETS DMV
- ANOTHER KIND OF MANDATORY NATIONAL SERVICE
- “THEY CALL THAT THE SUBURBS.”
- THAT FEELING-AT-HOME FEELING
- ANOTHER WALK AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD
- A WALK AROUND THE BLOCK WITH SPRING IN MY STEP
- WILLIAM BRANGHAM’S COUCH AND OTHER COVID-19 QUESTIONS
- CANTUS FIRMUS v COVID-19
- GOD WEATHER
- LOOKING FOR BETTER ANGELS? TRY THE SUBWAY.
- WHY?
- MOJAVE MORNING
- THE ROAD TO GRANTS PASS
- MOMENTS
- TRYING
- ROADSIGNS
- UNEXPECTED
- EMERGING
- FRESH START
- ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE
- TIME TO GO
- DREAM VACATION? WE’LL SEE.
- I WISH
- DOLLLAR SIGNS
- THAT AMERICAN DREAM THING NEEDS WORK
- WORK-LIFE BALANCE. VARIATIONS ON A THEME
- MY WALL IN WINTER
- SOMETHING A DOCTOR SAID TO ANN ONE TIME
- TB OR NOT TB?
- FROM LAPSED TO RECONSTITUTED
- THE INTRUDER
- EMPTY PEWS: WHY THEY SHOULD MATTER TO EVERYONE
- SHELTERING IN PLACE
- JOURNAL ENTRY. SHOAL CREEK MORNING
- JUST WHEN I THOUGHT I WAS ONTO SOMETHING…
- IN PRAISE OF CIVIL SERVANTS
- LAUREL LANE
- A CHRISTMAS GIFT FROM MRS. CARROLL
- CONFESSION AND INDICTMENT. A MEDICAL MISADVENTURE
- DRIVING TO TEXAS
- MOVING ALONG
- THE GOOD THING ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP
- THE LESSON OF MILKWEED
- A WALK WITH DAVID BROOKS
- EASTER PARADE
- DICKS AND SEASONAL-AFFECT DISORDER
- FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE: STREET PROTESTS
- AN ADIRONDACK EVENING IN LATE AUTUMN
- REBIRTH OF A NATION?
- FRAME OF REFERENCE
- HUCK AND ME AND GLUTEN-FREE
- ON CONVERSATION
- THESE DAYS
- THE ROAD TO PLACID
- GRACE NOTES
- WINTER NIGHTS IN THE MONASTERY
- SERENITY AND GRAVY
- STUDY SH0WS “THINK HAPPY” INEFFECTIVE
- SOAP BOX TIME. SUBJECT: IMMIGRATION
- READER’S PASS; REQUIEM FOR A LIBRARY
- AN AFTERNOON AT THE LIBRARY
- OF PINTO BEANS AND JALAPEÑOS
- TAX PREPARATION WITH MARILYNN ROBINSON
- QUIET, PLEASE
- TROUBLE FITTING IN
- EVEN REALLY SMART GUYS CAN GET IT WRONG
- DECEMBER, 2014
- RITUALS AND EPIDEMICS
- OF NORTHERS AND NEMATODES
- SUNDAYS THERE AND HERE, THEN AND NOW
- SETTLING IN AND FIGURING IT OUT
- MOVING AS DYING
- IT’S A CAT’S LIFE
- THE GREAT SAUNTER
- THOMAS MERTON AT THE PRICE CHOPPER
- BOOKS, THE DEPRESSION, AND ME
- IN THE LAND OF THE ELEVEN-MONTH YEAR
- The New Yorker as Marital Aid
- BY HAND OR BY KEYBOARD?
- ON THE ROAD WITH IKE
- Finally – a BIG Christmas Tree
- OBAMACARE IN PERSPECTIVE
- A QUIET THANKSGIVING IN SARANAC LAKE
- THE TROUBLE WITH MY PORCH SWING
- ADIRONDACK AUTUMN, 2013
- Bananas in the Service of the Sacramental Life
- My New York City, Part 2
- My New York City, Part 1
- Eating and Being in Riverdale
- Bronx Hardware Store
- The Great Saunter
- Home from London.
- Looking for an Apartment
- The View from the Subway
- One Year After 9/11
- A FRESH START
- A FRESH START