What Would McAvoy Say?

Love at First Sight Part Two 23.07.2025 4:02 ↓

That evening we went body surfing at midnight under a full moon, and a couple porpoises joined us as playmates and instructors...

Love at First Sight 15.07.2025 4:16 ↓

That was this boy’s lucky day...

Capt. Cook & Me 09.07.2025 4:04 ↓

Thereupon, not unlike Captain Cook, I shoved off to where no man had gone before.

Founding Incline Village 02.07.2025 3:58 ↓

"This little village of ours is going to need a really good name."

One Page Autobiography 26.06.2025 3:45 ↓

Future readings will serve to advance human understanding and tolerance.

Review of Ron Chernow's Mark Twain Biography 18.06.2025 4:31 ↓

If you’re hoping to check it out of your library you should expect to be put on a waiting list.

Mark Curtis 11.06.2025 3:45 ↓

They even let me climb inside Sputnik Two...

What Starlings Can Teach Us 04.06.2025 3:41 ↓

They administer that kindness regardless of those other birds’ political beliefs...

Surf Bum to Ski Bum 28.05.2025 4:11 ↓

No, if Lake Tahoe does not cure whatever ails you, I’ll bury you at my own expense...

Do Nothing Day 20.05.2025 4:23 ↓

So there it is, please join Leonardo, Liza, Horace and me in celebrating the eighteenth of September, America’s fast emerging day off, “Do Nothing Day.” 

The Hydrological Cycle and God 14.05.2025 3:57 ↓

...the hydrologic cycle as it mightrelate to a presence of God...

Ode to Huckleberry 08.05.2025 1:52 ↓

Huckleberry faked his own death to get my attention...

Time Travel 2025 08.05.2025 4:03 ↓

I look forward to seeing you in the distant future...

Writing an Opinion Column Backwards 30.04.2025 4:01 ↓

Meanwhile, peace, progressand human rights remain our three inextricably linked goals. And when all issaid and done, at the end of a 500-word opinion column written backwards, this bitter Earthis not so bitter after all…

The Dandy Frightening the Squatter 23.04.2025 4:20 ↓

So let us take a moment here in 2025, and take a listento this sixteen-year-old prophet…

Summer of Blaze 18.04.2025 3:54 ↓

As I hung there counting my sins, the sound of my beating heart was broken by laughter and shouts of approval from my antagonists...

Make America Kind Again 09.04.2025 4:26 ↓

Let us each be a living Statueof Liberty, in the spirit of that wonderful gift from France, and honor our American ideals, and liberty and democracy…

Land of Sky Blue Waters 02.04.2025 3:35 ↓

Yes, at thirteen years old I knew two things for certain, Ihated the taste of brussel sprouts and loved the taste of the Land of Sky Blue Waters…

Dream Come True 26.03.2025 4:26 ↓

...civility is alive and well in the Great State of Nevada…  

My Little Brother 19.03.2025 3:46 ↓

Everybody loved Louie, evenfour-legged and feathered friends, probably because his sympathies were so wide,and his heart was so simple and knew no guile.

Waging War 12.03.2025 5:12 ↓

Let us start a careful climb down the escalationladder, bomb by bomb, day by day...

Love March Madness 04.03.2025 3:48 ↓

When betting on March Madness bet with the heart...

A Time for Civility 24.02.2025 4:27 ↓

For the sake of us all, we are here for each other…