Wowza

February 2, 2024.Reading time 2 minutes.

I’ve been writing longform over on Facebook for more than a decade now, but never had anything approaching the reaction to this week’s post on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. 10,000 shares?Are you kidding me? Wowza.So, thanks again to everyone for sharing/reading this post…and for re-enforcing my faith in humanity. It’s very clear that, like […]

Driving Gratitude

November 23, 2023.Reading time 13 minutes.

On this Thanksgiving morning, I’m posting a picture that shows you what I see every day as I am driving home from North Oak Cliff. This pic from the great Justin Terveen shows a much more swollen river than usual…I mostly post it for how the buildings look…because that’s how it looks, every night… I […]

Summer

August 5, 2023.Reading time 9 minutes.

Thank you for gently tolerating my love of summer this year. I hope you can recognize that I am generally reciprocating by not bloviating about how great it is every day. (Yes. This post is an exception) I am incredibly aware that this is the kind of summer that tests the resolve of even the […]

How Eric Ruined your Cinco de Mayo

May 5, 2023.Reading time 9 minutes.

It’s Cinco de Mayo and so, like every stereotypical White person in America, I am thinking about Tex Mex.Maybe I’ll go get some at one of my favorite places… Maybe we’ll head over to “Acapulquena.”Oh RIGHT…they CLOSED… Well then, maybe we’ll walk over to “Matt’s Lakewood.”Oh RIGHT…they CLOSED… Well, then, maybe we’ll jump over to […]

Reflecting on “The Whale”

March 14, 2023.Reading time 16 minutes.

Is it possible to have differing, but equally valid, moral and ethical positions on the film “The Whale?” I sure hope so. I could be about to test this in what follows. Whatever your views on the film, on food, on obesity, on “fatphobia,” —that entire constellation of issues— I invite you to read this […]

Ash Wednesday

February 23, 2023.Reading time 9 minutes.

A year ago Ash Wednesday… It is about this time of night(1) I have not come home from church, but instead I am sitting alone in Roberts Forest at KPUMC. The fire pit is dying down. (This is an actual picture….) I’m praying a lot. I’m playing guitar. And I’m doing some pretty intense crying. […]

“Remind Me Again…” (Thanksgiving 2022)

November 23, 2022.Reading time 15 minutes.

“Now…remind me again….which of the Beatles are still alive?” “Paul and Ringo, Mom.” It is Thanksgiving Day, one year ago tomorrow. We are at our family’s Lakehouse, and we are watching Peter Jackson’s “Get Back” documentary which has just dropped for streaming that very day. More accurately, *I* am watching the documentary, and the rest […]

Garden Cafe is Back!

September 19, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

Of all the things I’ve done during this pandemic, I am most personally proud of working to help get Garden Cafe back open. One of the things that most makes our neighborhood the special place it is, is the ability to simply walk over to one of the finest restaurants in the city. Mark Wootten […]

See Like a Hawk

December 11, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

We’ve had a small, juvenile hawk hanging around the house the past few weeks. It might explain the sudden disappearance of rats on our late-night security cameras. (That might also be due to the neighborhood cat that apparently likes to sleep on our front porch rocking chairs…) I snapped this picture of him/her this morning. […]

“OK, Boomer” and Generation Jones

January 23, 2020.Reading time 21 minutes.

Recently, I was having a debate with a GenXer about the whole stupid “OK, Boomer” phenomenon. He was defending it, and I was not so much offended by it, as bored; by both the meme and his snarky insistence that he knew things this old man clearly did not. For my part, I was trying […]