OK, after three weeks of no blogging, this is possibly the most anticlimactic post ever, but I just had to relate that I literally could not...

Hey, all! Happy Thanksgiving! It was a bee-U-ti-ful day here in Halifax so we went for a little walk. We checked out the Shearwater Flyer Tr...

So here are those photos of Prospect I promised you. I guess the waves I mentioned are not really in evidence. But there's plenty of roc...

Wulp, I finished the new Jonathan Franzen novel, and it's a doozy. Another long one, another dysfunctional family, more multiple points ...

It feels like I've been shirking my duties here. I haven't really been keeping people very up to date about what's goes on in ou...

A few years ago I wrote about an idea I had called the Motivated Book Exchange (MBE). The gist of if was that people would agree to read bo...

Just wanted whoever to know that we made it through Tropical Storm Earl, and we have power and phone service back now. A lot of branches fel...

Here are some of the snapshots Alison's been taking with the Holga camera I gave her. Some of them are pretty psychedelic. I must say, ...

It was really great: hanging out with seldom-seen friends and their kids and dogs in Elysian settings. There was lots of swimming, biking, r...

I've been working like a maniac for some time, but I finally got to the end of things, at least temporarily, and now it's time for a...

Happy long weekend, everyone. Assuming you had a long weekend. Do all parts of the country get one? I was never clear on that. Here in Halif...

I realize I haven't been saying very much on here lately. I guess I'm kind of off words these days (see playlist at right). They jus...

I guess comic writer Harvey Pekar died yesterday. The causes seem still to be unknown. I know he had had cancer, but the media is saying Jo...

...so prudent!

There've been all sorts of photos taken of all sorts of fun times over the past few weeks, but I haven't had the chance to post any....

Has anyone else noticed how much Gene Simmons is beginning to resemble an old Eskimo woman? I think, if he's done with this whole KISS t...

All right, it's time to start digesting this can of worms I've opened, if I may mix metaphors disgustingly. I have a whole pile of n...

Welcome to the XL's. Forty, foxy, and feeling fine! And a belated HB to Bennett, too. Poor Ben always gets the late birthday present in ...

I know we're all champing at the bit for Part II of "What If It's Not About Belief?" in which the main argument is reveale...