For the early birds: a new piece up at @mockingbirdmin about my years building homes (and a few related thoughts). Link below

For the young, young man struggling with alcoholism, for the young woman crippled by anxiety, for the old man, caught in the remnants of a body, living in memories, for the old woman alone in a room, hurting and scared - Lord in you mercy, be with those who work or weep or watch.

Ah. College football. The best teams money can buy . .

Happy Friday Twitter-peeps, refinishing the deck edition

Here’s the deal: @CarlaGaldoVA is an absolute gem. It would be a very good thing for you to support her work. I pledged a paid subscription to Where Feathers Pierce

Narrator Voice: “This is not, in fact, what we need.”

One day I’m carrying him around like a football and the next day he’s an absolute unit.

Ah. First day of senior year of high school for my fourth, my last, child. Having ALL the feels about that.

Phenomenal…. and not a little scary

From “The Maniac” by Labatut, a phenomenal work

“The concept of Enlightenment suffers from definitional promiscuity.” - from WSJ book review. True or not, it’s a great sentence.

Happy Friday, Twitter-peeps. (Too hot to build a fire edition.). Things I’m liking:.- My quarterly delivery from @CopperworksDist, always single malt, always excellent.- “The Maniac” by Benjamin Labatut.- a weekend with nothing planned

The second law of thermodynamics includes a clause, way down at the bottom, which states: “When Steve wears a white shirt, he will spill coffee on it. There’s no universe in which he will not.”.

Let the record show that I spelled “bureaucracies” correctly the first time I tried.

From WSJ opinion piece today. My boys grew up in a liberal artsy home, but the mentality represented in this paragraph has seeped into their way of thinking. I consistently say to them, as we talk about college and future plans,“You are far more than what you produce.”

Superman (the new movie) wasn’t actually that good …. thin characters, plot holes, weird subtexts. Charming lead, to be sure, but, overall - meh.

6’ x 8’ - should keep my back deck Solo Stove goin for awhile

This should keep me outta trouble for awhile

And today’s “The Editor Was Taking a Nap Award” goes to the WSJ.