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Essays

  • I Dreamed I Was the 13th Beatle ... and I meet George, years later ...
  • In The Year of the Deer Christ Winter in the country
  • Casi, You Will Always Be My Girl Story of a good dog
  • Guatemaltecan Prayers It was real hot on the bus ...
  • The Good King A sad Christmas story
  • The Ice Father An even sadder Valentine's Day story
  • The Jacob's Hill Recommunion I attend a 10-year reunion at a commune in the Colorado Rockies
  • A Melting Pot a fever dream of family -- everything is swirly
  • A Prophecy Thirty-six years later I still cry several times a year.
  • A Jar in Tennessee In the woods with a dog and a tape recorder
  • Two Cities Eating an apple on the banks of the Mississippi
  • The Woman I Love Sometimes, when we say no, we mean yes.
  • Death, God, and Santa Claus Snowflakes and death ...
  • Couvade and the Cloud of Unknowing An inquiry into what it is to be a father
  • The Things I Meant to Say Before the children got away ...
  • Saturday Morning Omens by the airport
    • "Does Your Home Need a Cleanroom?" (March 16, 1998)

    Is Matt Drudge the New Tom Paine? (Feb. 2, 1998)

    How I Lost My Guru Status (Jan. 19, 1998)

    Keeping the faith in 3D (Jan. 12, 1998)

    The Millennium Fiasco ... a Y2K scenario (Jan. 1, 1998)

    A Boy and His Video Card (Dec. 9, 1997)

    Season's Greetings from the Space Station Mir (Dec. 2, 1997)

    "The Ice Father" -- An essay about winter and love (Nov. 27, 1997)

    Postcard from the Man Who Loved Islands (Nov. 24, 1997)

    Lost in translation; My Adventure with Portuguese (9/22/97)

    Four days in Sao Paulo -- Some Observations. (9/29/97)

    New Labor Day Archetypes (9/1/97)

    Questions for the Queen (8/4/97)

    The thing that lives under the bridge (6/30/97)

    Picnicking with Frank Lloyd Wright (5/26/97)

    Thoughts on Memorial Day, freedom, and the nets (5/26/97)

    A web page for the RiverDogs (5/5/97)

    Ten Things I Know for Sure (I Think) (3/3/97)

    Where home office dogs come from (2/17/97)

    Pictures from a bygone era

    Scrambles in the family tree

    On the pyschopathology of chess

    Holiday thoughts involving birds

    Bringing my brothers to the Net

    Techie pie, a Thanksgiving tradition

    Enlightment in the superstore tech support queue

    Cybersmut and alien election tampering

    Confessions of a third-story man

    The world's first fully Internet-worthy RV

    What is that strange chirping sound?

    Traveling with a PC over rocky terrain, I discover what is fragile and what is not.

    Mark Twain in the 21st century

    Searching for an outlet in the wilderness

    The Unabomber is really no worse than Mork from Ork.

    What will become of our dear mother tongue?

    What would your role in a medieval kingdom have been?

    The new war between the states

    Frolicking with a laptop on Mt. Rainier

    There's really no reason to ever leave home again.

    Reflections on the conclusion of highway construction season

    Look yourself up on a Web search engine, see who you find.

    A Quark for Sister Pat

    Do you know where your money has been?

    The READ.ME file to end all READ.ME files

    Cheers for the passing of three Citadels

    The abominable Doctor Goldfine

    The joy of moving

    Am I crazy, or is it getting awful hot in here?

    My debate with Coach Shula

    It takes all kinds to run a computer.

    Why computers have no sense of humor

    Old Mother Hubbard went to the keyboard ...

    The town so nice they named it Thrace

    Wilderness computer user

    I go the lavatory to the sound of Muzal

    Freeze, Carmen Sandiego!

    An unabridged too far

    Don't forget to take your PC with you to the cabin up north

    Nano, nano -- little teeny computers


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