PhiladelphiaPennsylvaniaOctober 2004There are 27 columns in my Pennsylvania Series. Behold! What’s normal? Statistics say that normal falls between 30 and 70 percent. The government agrees that Normal is a town of about 47 000 humans in Illinois. According to… Hey, wait a minute. That’s not what I want to write about here. What I want… Continue reading Pennsylvania Series XXV — The Mütter Museum
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Fear III — Later is Now
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau — we have named one of our furry, stuffed pets “Hank Dave” in honor of Thoreau — were trail buds, kind of like Lisa and me, but not really. Emerson warned Thoreau that Mount Greylock was a “serious mountain.” Thoreau’s response was to up and summit forthwith. Bushwhacking the final… Continue reading Fear III — Later is Now
Rite of Passage
Frick ParkPittsburghJune 2020 Minding my own business as I move on up the trail, I notice a guy and a kid, off in the bramble. Young father and son, just poking around. They make their way over to a particular tree. They face the tree, Dad behind Junior, talking quietly to him. I hear a… Continue reading Rite of Passage