BOGO (Buy One, Get One)

It’s been a quiet week. I went fishing twice, I played cards once. Otherwise the days have been so uneventful that this week’s blog is about buying a loaf of bread. On Sunday Manyu asked me to go to Olive Garden to get her a bowl of chicken gnocchi soup. On her...

Good Enough?

I don’t often write about the process of writing in my weekly blogs. I think about it though, and recently a particular question has been gnawing at me. For the past month, I have been editing material I’d written over a year ago, and I find myself asking...

Old Men and the River

A month ago Buzz and I burned out the outboard motor on Buzz’s small fishing boat. For the two weeks following, we fished from my canoe instead. We caught fish, but we also wound up with stiff backs and sore butts from sitting in the same cramped positions too...

Top Five

Time spent going down internet rabbit holes is pretty much time wasted. Still I do it, and every once in a while I come across something worth watching. Recently I found two YouTube videos in which Neil Young and Paul McCartney each described the five songs that they...
Steven Simpson