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  • A Tale of Two Ponies, Or, Gather Ye Dirt Clods While Ye May

    Daughter Elizabeth and I had flown to San Jose for a college application test.  As a lark, I rented a Ford Mustang convertible for tooling around in.  Although long past my midlife crisis (a convertible red Mazda Miata had sufficed for that), the car had an unexpected effect on me;  I found myself driving like …

    November 19, 2021
  • BFF – Best Friends + Food

    Having moved into our new house in southwest Little Rock that summer, I transferred to Cloverdale Elementary for the first day of fifth grade, just after Labor Day. Cloverdale was within easy walking distance of our home, which was a first for me. This was my fourth school during my family’s nomadic period, achieved American …

    October 11, 2021