Update

This is why I don’t handicap horses at the track. My predictions are so hardly ever accurate. Y was late for court, again, but at least they didn’t immediately issue a bench warrant for his arrest. But that did mean sitting through everyone else’s continuances to April 12 before they circled back to Y. The […]

Holding Court

Back in February, I wrote about “Y,” a man in his 20s whom I have followed through the court system who was going back into the system just three weeks before he was scheduled to get off an endless cycle of probation. I wrote that I didn’t know what was going to happen to him. […]

Ruby Tuesday

I have to confess: I don’t really love how donating blood makes me feel. I mean that in the physical sense, although it’s kind of creeping into the emotional realm as well: there was a moment, however brief, yesterday where I wondered what would happen if I told the blood suckers I’d changed my mind […]

No Season for Students

We had two customers of note in yesterday at Pat’s Screen Printing. We don’t know who one was, or even when he or she came through. We just know this person was there. And we know this because it was March yesterday: first it rained, then it froze, then it snowed, then it fogged, then […]

LEEDing by Example

As I mentioned yesterday in a very truncated post (it was not a particularly productive weekend on any front, other than I did get caught up on household bills), World Ark magazine, which usually highlights people and projects in the developing world, made the jarring juxtaposition of how Americans save the planet versus Tanzanians. So […]

Puzzled Out

Do we all remember how the Grinch “puzzed and puzzed ’til his puzzler was sore?” Well, my puzzler is sore. We spent most of yesterday in another fervor of indecision, until I just completely gave out. And this morning, while casting about for blog topics — there are several, but nothing leaped to the forefront […]

Breakfast With Ben

This week, three people who previously worked at Pat’s Screen Printing stopped by to say “hi,” one of them twice, and I was not at work any of those times. Of course, among time mismanagement, blogging, house-ing and on-the-street socializing, that doesn’t leave much time in my day for work, so I suppose it stands […]

A Pox on the First Amendment

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Here’s a sticky wicket for you: is it okay to […]

Inundated

There are days — and this is one of them — when I watch the news and wonder how I then turn about and engage in such frippery as this blog. Today — probably for One Day Only — I may just be less fripperous (not a word, but it should be) than usual. People […]

Holding Pattern

Donnie, who has worked at Pat’s Screen Printing for something like 13 years, has a milestone birthday coming up tomorrow — but that didn’t seem to be foremost on his mind yesterday when he came to work. “Spring in two days,” he kept saying. Almost as if he could will that to be true. I […]