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For Love of Moxie

Stories•Posted November 14, 2017

Bodaciously blue, she is a baby butch. Ceding genuine butch to my friend Ruth's larger Subaru Crosstrek, I steadfastly maintain that my Impreza Sport, named Moxie and tricked out with extra trim and interior delights, is cuter.

Tags: butch, car, Grub Street
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What Susan Made of My Birthday

Grief, Soccer•Posted December 31, 2016

May 2016 Twenty-seven years ago today, we pulled into the gravel parking lot of Lisa’s one-room “studio” apartment in Susan’s white four-door Jeep Cherokee, “Butch Running Truck.” Ostensibly, my friend Lisa was making the two of us a treat for my birthday. We climbed steep outdoor stairs and knocked on the glass door. “Surprise!” Lisa […]

Tags: audio, Boston Breakers, celebrations, Gugelhof, Swiss
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Material Embodiments

Grief•Posted October 27, 2016•2 Comment(s)

I first met Susan’s dining room furniture when we visited Fortress Fine Arts Storage in Boston, known to I-93 travelers as the building with the inflated gigantic padlock. I was in awe of the central elevator platform, which was large enough for a car, and the mystery of what valuables were within each surrounding compartment. […]

Tags: antiques, furniture, memories, possessions
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Notes from My Trip to the Old Country

People & Places•Posted August 6, 2016•2 Comment(s)

G.P.S. A few weeks ago, I travelled back to Lincoln, Nebraska, my hometown, on what’s left of the prairie. I hadn’t been back since my parents moved 15 years ago and, for 20 years before that, only at Christmas time. Now, in a blink of an eye, it was Lincoln High’s 35th reunion, and the […]

Tags: hometown, Lincoln, Nebraska, reminiscences
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Cobblestones

von Salis house

Samedan, Switzerland

Samedan, Switzerland

The Passage of the Landscape Sculptors

Peeling with dignity

Light over Pemaquid

Moon over the David Bugby

Foot prints on the Jersey Beach I

Foot prints on the Jersey Beach III

Footprints on the Jersey Beach II

San Peter, laced

The start of a long hike

Larch

Samedan in the fall

View from our bench

Porch under snow

Snow on the railing

A slice of heaven

Happy feet

Computing feet

Tree in the grass

Red Bud in bloom

It's the hands that speak I

It's the hands that speak II

View through a Swiss window

Portrait of a Polar Bear

Dinosaur footprint

Dinosaur footprints

Fort Union, New Mexico, July 2003

Door to nowhere

Ominous Sky and Red Rocks

Sky

Above Taos, before the rain

Santa Fe trail ruts

Moss

Next door, 2002

Near Winterthur, 2002

Brown Swiss, 2002

Bike Rack near Winterthur

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