When you’re a homebrewer, sometimes the product is greater than the sum of its parts and sometimes it’s a mess you pour down the drain. Three weeks ago I bottle my Harvest Ale, a lovely dark amber spiced ale made…
Yearly Archives: 2014
Your Reality, My Reality, Her Reality
Do you remember your dreams? I do, in resonant detail. I can remember dreams from childhood, and a strong or disturbing dream can echo throughout my day, which begs the question: where in “reality” do they exist? My reality is…
Brewing Stockpile
Now I know how the squirrel feels. With the warmth of summer still hanging in the air like the last note of a concert before the applause, the days growing darker but the cold not yet drawing the heat away.…
Plan Your Costumes Now, Kiddos!
It’s probably already too late to get the supplies for your Halloween costume. Someone else with superior planning skills and costume-planning moxie already snatched up the good stuff. Just take a look at the wigs we found at Goodwill this…
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T-t-t-t-TRAIN COMING!!!
Hang out with some little kids for a while and you’ll realize how amazing EVERYTHING is. Maybe you have trains or trolleys or streetcars or railcars or funiculars or electric buses or rickshaws in your hometown. But have you ever…
Brew Daze
Apologies for the punny title, I was inspired by a liquor store near my office called, sadly, “Happy Daze Liquors”. It seems like a name that would’ve been funny during the Great Depression but now stirs up the tut-tutters. What’s…
Children and Fashion
Alright, here’s the deal: at some point you begin to care how you look. For some this happens at five, others at fifteen, others…well, they’re the ones you see in saggy sweatpants and loose slippers shuffling through Walmart. Child Harbat…
Parental Love
There are good days and bad days, and moments in a day like blades of sunlight cutting through stormclouds. Life isn’t a train of events, each linked to the next by the relentless curling wave of time. No, life is…
Turtle Baby
There is no accounting for love. It strikes unexpectedly and doesn’t follow rules or conventions. During an IKEA outing several weeks ago, Number Two was getting fussy, what with the endless turns into rooms full of lamps, reasonably-priced kitchenware, and…
Going Barefoot
Kids have it right because they haven’t enough civilization and experience to do what isn’t natural. Let’s face it, we are animals, in the species timescale just a blink away from striding the plains and bashing each other with clubs.…
