Friend Arthur Fink, who told acquaintances he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, has passed away. The obituary below is borrowed from the Portland Maine Press-Herald: Noted Peaks Island photographer Arthur J. Fink dies at 74 He had an enduring connection to the Bates Dance Festival, where he served as resident photographer from 2005 through … Continue reading Arthur Fink: Quaker Photographer, 74
My buddy Garrison — well, I did meet him once, and he even told me a couple of his secrets, which I blabbed here in 2016. And we’re the same age; we always are, except for the sad months of September until early December. He gets older first. And now he’s charging into the post-pandemic, … Continue reading Garrison Keillor Goes Contemporary
It’s true. Anyone, even you or I, can now cuss on the grounds of the historic old Alamance County Courthouse, in downtown Graham NC. You could even do it right on the courthouse steps. Right there. In front of God & everybody — everybody including Sheriff Terry Johnson. Yes, even him. The Raleigh News & … Continue reading There Goes the neighborhood: Cussing no longer a crime on the Alamance County courthouse steps
The first time I heard the Jeff Bezos Apology story, it was from my big brother just the other day, and I immediately thought: No way. There is just no way Jeff Bezos publicly apologized. And he simply could not possibly be dumb enough to do what he had allegedly apologized for. Not that he’s … Continue reading When Jeff Bezos Personally Apologized. No, Really.
Tom Friedman, longtime NYTimes columnist, treats us to some snippets of diary entries from his first trip to Afghanistan, in early 2002, with then Senator Joe Biden. Friedman opens the piece in the posture of sadder-but-wiser sage: “I was not surprised that Joe Biden decided to finally pull the plug on the U.S. presence in … Continue reading “Nation Building” on the Moon? Smarter than the U.S. in Afghanistan?