“What is that sound? Is there an emergency alert on the TV? No, it’s your iPhone!”

It seems like the cicada invasion here in Arlington is starting to wane. The eerie, sci-fi sound emanating from the trees has significantly lessened; the sidewalks are now home to the dead. It’s pretty sad. Over  [more...]

It’s interesting, isn’t it, how Bob Hope (who turns 100 today) came to be associated so firmly with the song “Thanks for the Memory” – and in turn, the song took on a meaning unlike it had  [more...]

It’s sobering and strange, these connections to people we have. In the last few years, three separate tragedies have kind of scuffed my life by taking people that were peripherally connected to me in some way. On  [more...]