I wrote a while back about my changing attitude toward attending what once was the highlight of my week during the fall: joining 110,000 of my best friends in the Big House to watch my Wolverines play football (1). This growing aversion is not yet absolute, as my wife and and I joined the Homecoming crowdContinue reading “No mo’. A dozen supposedly fun things I’m no longer doing these days”
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how lucky
Listening to John Prine’s Spotify channel last night got me thinking about a project I started years ago and now might be about time to deploy. I’ll link John’s song about this at the end, but first let me relate the details. From my birth I’ve been lucky. After a while you wonder what the pattern means.Continue reading “how lucky”
mega ghee
It began as something for the Spei family mid-February Christmas celebration extravgangza. The February date allows individuals to have their close family Christmas then be available sometime after Valentine’s Day for a bigger blowout. My birthdad, Dick Spei, was a gourmet/gourmand who taught all his offspring to approach each meal as if it were their last, adviceContinue reading “mega ghee”
VD24
I hope you all had a lovely Valentine’s Day, dirty foreheads and all, some of you. Mine was wonderful, although it didn’t start well. Unable to tell my wife when that Kerrytown Cabaret show started, I went looking for the tickets and couldn’t find them anywhere. I dashed off a frantic e-mail to the concert house, butContinue reading “VD24”
