May 17, 2020
My dad, Gene M. Culver, is my guest blogger today, with a review of Ulysses S. Grant’s memoirs. It’s not a book for the faint of heart – two volumes with illustrations and maps. He wrote it near the very end of his life and it became a bestseller,...
May 10, 2020
I miss Mom’s hamburgers, I miss when she would burp like a sailor and then act all surprised, and I miss how she cut Snickers into little slivers so she could eat them really slowly. I miss her long perfect nails and her hair curler box, and the ungodly amount...
May 8, 2020
For what, I don’t know – but today is it! Random weird ghosty cat in a glassed-in shop. I guess it’s actually me who’s weird-ghosty, the cat is just fine. Ramon and I made burgers today for lunch – they were decadent and good. Isn’t...
May 4, 2020
Need a break from my last political screed? Me too – and from the obsessive news reading that lead up to it. I’ve been trying not to get wrapped around the axle for the past few days, get better sleep, do some sort of exercise, and eat healthy. There is...
Apr 27, 2020
We have lost our way. The world is agog at our flailing, hypocritical, incompetent, dangerous president. Some citizens are congregating and protesting, derailing the success of confinement. It turns out that having a schism in the middle of our populace and bombastic...
Apr 23, 2020
Such gorgeous skies… What does one do when one can’t get outside? If one is very, very lucky and smart, one plays the hell out of some ping pong, of course. We’re debating whether to get a table. We could do it but it’s gonna be tight. Our...
