This old truck
About seven years ago I was at a family get-together at my parents' house. When everybody else had left, and it was my folks and I at the kitchen table,…
Paid in full
A few days ago I did something I've been looking forward to for a long time. I made the last payment on my car. How I got here was an…
Time Capsule: Life, Nov. 24, 1958
Too many things on my mind are failing to cohere into a decent post (or series thereof), so why don't we dive back into the stacks, eh? Here's the November…
The Fifth Column of Decency: Life, Sept. 23, 1957
One of my favorite pastimes on a lazy afternoon is to leaf through old magazines in various online archives. The big Life magazine archive is a particular joy to me,…