Neal @ January 15, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Kicking a whale up a beach
Braiding grape jelly
Comforting the chronically afflicted.
(1/22/09 P.S. to RW: who asked “Why would you kick a whale?” The only reason I can think of is that 1) he’s down, and 2) you’re that sort of fellow.)
Neal @ November 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet
THE REASON WE NEED each other is that life rarely contains enough different viewpoints to even begin understanding Life.
Neal @ August 30, 2009 # No Comment Yet
AS SOME VERY GOOD PEOPLE have been very good to Ann & I during our Long Medical Night, I’d like to partly return the favor – and, hopefully, benefit the 30 or so people who read this blog.
In addition to being gracious hosts, entertaining guests and generally all-around wonderful folk, Marty and Laura Clein run [...]
Neal @ August 27, 2009 # One Comment
ALL I REALLY HAD IN mind was helping out my colleagues — I didn’t know I’d also be helping myself.
I’m referring to today’s North Bay Bohemian article titled “There to Be There: Police chaplains ride the thin blue line of compassion.” Aside from this blog and an occasional email, it’s the first thing I’ve written [...]
Neal @ July 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I SUPPOSE MEETING BAD NEWS with a muffin recipe demonstrates either spectacular denial or spectacular piety. I have often been accused of both, but the former is the more likely culprit here; I awoke this morning thinking, “No more long walks with the wife; no more dancing at the rate of five pounds an hour, [...]
