death and taxes

If you know me, you probably realize that I don’t gain much comfort from religion. I’m too much of a cynic, apparently. This weekend we went to the funeral for my brother-in-law. I really didn’t know him, I met him at my wedding and perhaps saw him a couple other times. He left home when […]

familiar stranger

Have you ever gone to an airport to pick up somebody you didn’t know? Or, perhaps, somebody you had met once, but hadn’t seen in a while? I did this, nearly twenty years ago. It was a couple days before my wedding and I was nominated / volunteered to pick up my fiancee’s brother. My […]

By your command

I found this over at Lee’s blog, but the full article is here. His quote is perfect, so I’ll be a copy cat: Battlestar Gallactica showrunner Ron Moore has a blog and a couple of people wrote complaining about sex on the show and how their kids couldn’t watch it and so on. He gives […]