The dao of senseless kindness
Earlier I had mentioned that Toto left a large streak along the front of our sofa where she had been…
Author: scribbler
The kindly idiot: part 2
In the incident from Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad related in the last post, a group of Russian soldiers on their way…
The kindly idiot: part 1.
In the middle of the countdown to our move, I learned that Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad had finally been published in…
Reading Terminal Market
It’s been almost a month since I joined Anne Mei in our apartment in Philadelphia along with our furniture and…
Empty
Finished cleaning out the apartment in Princeton today. Turned over the keys and the parking pass and headed south…
There’s no such thing as race so what’s going on with racists?
Last week I read an article in the New York Times about white nationalists and DNA test results. I’d say…
In between
As the reality of moving to a new apartment in a new city sinks in, there have been moments when…
Stuff
Now we’ve reached the hard part, the part where the karma of the past flows more strongly than ever. Objectively,…
Almost done
Ready for movers to come tomorrow morning to start packing whatever I haven’t, mostly kitchen stuff and breakables. They will…
Has anyone seen my brain?
The view from my bedroom window at our new apartment. Not that I have a bed yet. Anne Mei moved…