Our morning walk takes a lot longer these days. It’s been part of my daily routine since Felipe the senior mini-schnauzer joined me just after Thanksgiving. Around 7 I walk out of the bedroom to find “Phil” still snoozing in his bed by the front door. “Good morning,” I shout. ...
If you’ve watched feature stories on local television, you’ve seen the work of Dave Forstate. For 50 years, Dave was a photojournalist — a cameraman — for KDKA and WQED. Dave died this week after a difficult year fighting pancreatic cancer. For the past 10 years, he was my ...
There would be five of us for dinner – one more if she could get away from work. You know me enough by now to know this would be the source of much anxiety. And as is also my tendency, I would make enough food for three times as many as were coming. Nine months after a bunch of us ...
The boxes arrive every few days, placed against the front door by the delivery person who then snaps a photo to prove it came. Some of the boxes are heavy enough that I open and download a bit before dragging the rest inside. Felipe stands there as I open them, poking his wiry gray nose ...
“Well, hello there,” I said as headed out the door to walk the dog. There in the grass along the sidewalk was a first, smiling sign of spring. A single dandelion had poked its yellow head above the green. After that long, cold and snowy winter, the world was finally waking up. ...
The same two words start my day, every day. The first word is “curio” and the second is “stead.” If you are among the millions of people who play Wordle, you know about this. Wordle is The New York Times game that gives a player six chances to guess a five-letter word. ...
