Category Archives: Miscellany
Investing a Dollar.
I bought a used book from the library for one dollar the other day. I don’t want to name it at present, because I don’t know how much of it I’ll like, and I don’t want to appear to endorse it at this time. It’s a program, you see. A program for enhancing creativity, and …
Lawn Care Metaphor
Last summer, a dead tree in our yard had to come down. Medium-sized. Some family with the right equipment came over and cut it down into larges pieces, leaving the pile of wood that has recently been an apple tree in a pile in the backyard. One thing led to another, and I never got around …
Baltimore.
I’m a Marylander, but I don’t live in Baltimore. It’s been about two years since I visited Charm City. Yet Maryland is a small state, and many of us, regardless of how often we may get there, consider Maryland’s largest city, warts and all, a major component of the state’s identity. All that by way …
Must I Bear Being a Bore? Not Yet.
I think I might be boring. All right, that might be a tad harsh on myself. Still, this week I’ve been forced to wonder. Twice in the last week I started a blog post, only to be struck with a sort of deja vu after a paragraph or so. In both cases I discovered, upon …
Bracket Bust and Vested Interests
I don’t follow college basketball. But this year I filled out a bracket for the first time ever. I didn’t research anything. I simply chose based on hunches, and a bit on “how much I have heard people mention this team.” A team I picked to go to the championship already lost a game on …
Ty Unglebower 