Spring
About ten hours ago, the vernal equinox arrived here in the northern hemisphere. In honor of that, here's my traditional...
Archive for Verse
Solstice
Winter solstice is impending in the northern hemisphere; it'll be about eight hours from now. I'm glad that the days...
David and Goliath rhymes
I just realized this is one of the things that some of the rhyme-chains in Hamilton reminded me of: ”Now...
Hamilton cast album!
Back in May, I posted about Hamilton, the new hip-hop Broadway musical about Alexander Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Ever since...
On first looking into Gary Snyder
Among the books I rescued from my father's house were six books of poems by Gary Snyder. I don't know...
Optimistic pessimist haiku
A couple months ago, I was riding my bike home from work and I made some kind of minor interacting-with-other-people-in-traffic...
Solstice
Winter solstice in the northern hemisphere is due to occur about seven hours from now. I'll be on a plane...
Spring
Thursday I wasn't up to posting my usual cheerful vernal-equinox post, and then I had no time Friday and then...
Solstice
Can't sleep—have been sick all week, and although I've been getting gradually better, tonight my neck started hurting to the...
Fourteen lines for fifteen years
Yesterday was Mary Anne's and my fifteenth anniversary. I've been thinking about relationships, and about Wendell Berry's poem “The Country...
Darkness into light
Sometimes around this time of year, we need a little hope to carry us through to brighter days. Here are...
To see our sites as Google sees ’em
In some contexts, it can be very useful to be able to view your site the way that the Googlebot...