I’m sorry to report that Bonnie died. Warning: today’s post is filled with gossip from half-a-century …

Still sitting at a folding table in a gutted kitchen. Below me, footers are nearly cured. New posts are not one-hundred …

I’m starting to look forward to autumn. It was a little cooler today and I think it will be a nice autumn this year. We’ve had …

We’ve had a busy week. My family is staying with me and this week we also had an old family friend staying with us as well…

There’s just no good time to remodel a kitchen. I guess if you had a team of skilled professionals, it wouldn’t matter as much, but I’m working alone. At the moment, my kitchen has a toaster oven, a …

I can’t remember a summer in Maine with more perfect weather. We’ve had tons of sunshine, warm temperatures, and enough rain …

Migrators was my first book where I received a physical copy. I wrote a note to my mom and sent the book off to her. She was the …

It was quite a busy week here. The dogs had their checkups/vaccinations, I had my annual doctor’s appointment …

I’ve watched or read a number of apocalyptic sci-fi stories recently. In Interstellar, Christopher Nolan paints a horrifically bleak (and …

It’s a no-breakfast morning for Albert (young German Shepherd). There’s nothing wrong with him. He just doesn’t eat breakfast …

Yesterday was Finn’s birthday. He’s a “fluffy” English Mastiff. And he’s old for an English Mastiff, but he still gets around pretty well…

When I was in school, math was both very easy and somewhat difficult for me. The easy parts were the homework and the tests…

Once a month, Google tells me how people are searching for “Ike Hamill.” The top query is almost always, “Ike Hamill dog.” People …

Yesterday was exciting! I was back in the mud room, putting things away, when I saw Earl majestically gallop at full speed across the …

Mom leaves today. The last three weeks have passed very quickly. We worked together on a few projects, but mostly she followed her …

My father’s house is under contract. We’ll see how that goes—we have to sweat out the appraisal, I guess. We got a bunch of offers …