Category: Family

  • A Passing in the Acres

    Although I don’t speak a lot about my family, it’s worth mentioning this because it’s so recent and so necessary. My wife died on April 3. We had been together for over 32 years. Death is just as important as life, as I’ve heard over the years. We learn about death when we’re young, and…

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  • Heavy Duty Storm

    We’re about 48 hours out from a banger of a storm if the weather reports are to be heeded. The warnings started going out a day or so ago, saying this was going to be one of those ‘snowmageddon’ events, where the accumulations would be measured in feet (or meters) rather than inches or centimeters.…

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  • Lil Miss Curious

    My current cat’s name is Bella. She’s 3 years old and every day is a new adventure. Like all my previous cats, she’s irreplaceable, and at times she’s precocious and sometimes just plain weird. Which honestly fits into my paradigm pretty well. This morning she was with me in the bathroom while I was getting…

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  • Knoxville

    Not the one in Tennessee. We’re on our annual vacation somewhere between here and NC. We have friends who live near Raleigh, and we’ve visited them a couple of times, but mostly they’ve come to visit us up in NY. Mostly because they at one time had family in the area, but as the years…

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  • New Wheels

    Today is the day we get our new lease. We’ve been leasing vehicles since 1998, and in that time, we’ve had the following: The new car is going to be another Nissan Murano. We very much liked the one we got in ’19, and at the end of the lease were trying to figure out…

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