It wouldn’t be good to resist the Autumn light that makes it easier than normal to get out on the bike and onto the Monon Trail. In a few weeks, Winter will have us scavenging for motivation like junk-yard raccoons. Today tosses the thing in front of us like a juicy sirloin. Don’t waste the [...]
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colors, shapes, friends, and strangers: an Autumn afternoon on the Monon
Posted in my hometown, thin rubber on October 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
this old house and the people who come here: when they built it
Posted in my hometown, this old house, tagged Indianapolis, this old house on July 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
They built this house, on what must have been Indianapolis’ far north side, in 1930. Peace in Europe was, fleetingly, twelve years old. Men who had clung to the trenches’ muddy, bloody edge were deciding whether to talk about that to their ten-year-old boys. An economic shattering so profound that it can still be called [...]
putting ‘er in park: 10th Annual Holliday Park Trail Run
Posted in Americana, my hometown on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Something there is about an urban gem. The architectural delight hidden among blight, the greenery ensconced in gray, the unanticipated lung—as it is described in Latin American Spanish—of a green space where one least expects it brings a quiet satisfaction to the attentive city-dweller. So it is that Holliday Park, an enchanting jewel half-rustic, half-refined, [...]
cattle call: Fogo de Chao, Indianapolis
Posted in my hometown, reseña on March 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The most memorable dining experience of my life took place in Londrina, Brazil, among a party of twenty friends at one of that South American country’s famed churrascarías. The longing for a repeat performance has lingered in a modest, back-stage sort of way ever since. With First Son home from his Seattle university, it seemed [...]
‘Just gittin’ started: The Aaron Pelsue Band, Live
Posted in my hometown, reseña, tagged music, reseña, The Aaron Pelsue Band on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Aaron Pelsue Band has become a fortunate fixture on the Indianapolis worship music scene. From its `home stadium’ at the Circle City’s East 91st Street Christian Church, the band has developed a dedicated following among Christian worshippers who appreciate—in addition to some rockin’ music—the band’s ability to play alternating lead and supporting roles in [...]
owls in the mix
Posted in clarity, my hometown, tagged fauna on July 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Returning from vacation in Montana to our more humble, flatland environs, my wife and I were greeted in the semidarkness by the sweeping, silent sight of a large owl departing a branch of one of the evergreens that separate our front yard from Holliday Park, just across the street. On the list of my tiltings [...]
swallows!
Posted in fauna, my hometown, tagged fauna on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Twenty years ago, one of the early-evening joys of coming home to our little house on the southeast side of San José, Costa Rica, with the coffee fields gracing the hills across the river like tightly-braided hair on a handsome head, were the swallows. Something about that cool, clear hour of the day brought them [...]
a drawer-full of squirrels
Posted in fauna, my hometown, tagged fauna on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My early mornings and occasional other moments in our family’s life on Indianapolis’ north side have been punctuated for about a year by noisy chewing. Apparently, this toothy romp takes place in crawl spaces and attics. Squirrels have been the main suspects, so I’ve been consulting the half-hopeless writings of blogs and web pages where [...]
new(ish) visitors
Posted in fauna, my hometown, tagged birding, fauna on May 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This Memorial Day weekend has provided the time and energy for a major restock of my bird supplies. The result has been some new visitors: A Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker has made brief, resplendent visits for seed and peanuts. He’s stayed long enough for this novice birdwatcher to mark the distinction between him and his suspected alternative [...]
remind me how today felt
Posted in my hometown, paterfamilias, tagged fauna on May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Remind me five weeks from now, when the frenzy has engulfed me again and I’m in a hotel room on some two-week business itinerary, waking up and taking five minutes to remember where I am, how good today felt. It has been so long since a Saturday at home came down like this one. Sleeping [...]
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