Coquina the Doglet is a delightful and quirky creature. Yesterday was damp and rainy. Christine was busy in the kitchen. Coquina gently suggested to Christine that maybe she could have […]

  I sometimes drowse while working on a crossword puzzle. Sometimes, as I trail off, the pen trails off too. The tompostpile loves crossword puzzles, and has worked them for […]

Coquina was happy to have both her humans together again. The early morning reunion at the bus station was wriggly and delirious. At 9:36AM, soon after we got home, she came […]

I may never finish all the Japan posts I’d like to make, and now I’ve gone and gone to California. I’ve seen some very fine things. And now I’ve gone, […]

The last stretch is underway. Denver to L.A. In a few hours I shall travel over a thousand miles. There will be few patterned fields or squares on the land […]

We continue the journey west. We’ve passed past the relatively well-watered mid-continent. Some fields we see are green. Some fields are fallow. There are shapes in the fields, shapes dictated […]

Yesterday morning at 5:17AM, umbrella in hand, I walked out the door of Frogside into a gray and rainy morning. My pack was packed, batteries charged, extra chip on hand, […]