A fascinating indigenous sidelight on @America250 with the Oneida & Tuscarora support of Gen. George Washington beginning in 1775. Gift link: wapo.st/4mxokGM

Take vacations when & as you can. I have no comprehensive strategy in my @GranvilleSentinel column this week, just a chastened reminder that sometimes you just gotta, and you should. www.newarkadvocate.com/story/opinio...

When you hit your 60th home run, you also get to use the F word in front of 43,000 fans. That's the rule.

Nine years old, but still shining bright. youtu.be/xpYHgbjOIq0

Assembled over decades, but it still lifts me up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeYq...

these maps are some of the coolest things

Darwin explained it some 150 years ago; the article is a decade old, but still relevant, so a gift link: wapo.st/4gEfjuj

Once again, I sit here and ask… do you have any idea how lethal fever was before effective antipyretic meds were developed?

Crowd-sourcing your ride: www.fox19.com/2025/08/26/w...

Leo High made me cry. #AGT

#OnThisDate in 1952, #RichardNixon went on TV to beg the American people to let him stay on the #GOP ticket as their VP candidate. It worked! It would go down in history as the #CheckersSpeech in honor of the #Nixon’s cocker spaniel, who was mentioned in the heart-tugging conclusion. #Politics

This is your regular reminder that the dividers in Twinings tea boxes make excellent scented bookmarks.

Yeah. This has been a… anyhow.

Morning mist in all the hollows. Moraine country. Good morning from Marbury. #Cheshire #sunrise

I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where’er I sail.

I made a schlep to Northwest Mass for a library talk because libraries are awesome, I like attention and because it's basically a paid ad for my store. Today I got 3 requests for talks from MA libraries. Guess it was good. recorder.com/2025/09/23/m...

Current mood right now:

If you or someone you know has been legally married to Burdick, you’re asked to call Detective Foushee at the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office and you should also maybe call Williams-Sonoma. www.fox10tv.com/2025/09/01/m...

George Devine said, 'You choose your theatre like you choose your religion.' This is how I try to live. It's really that important. You have to believe, & go deeper, & sacrifice, & fight. We don't all worship the same God & it's betrayal to pretend otherwise.

everyone should take three hours out of their day and watch THE LEOPARD, a total masterpiece of a film. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Farewell to Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025), who graced us with her many lives. #RIP #FilmSky

Last of summer fruit

Didn’t get raptured today but I saw a milkweed seed floating on the breeze

Everyday covering politics is like marinating in sewage

Jesus showed up today. Looked around. Decided some people needed more time. Be thankful. #Rapture #Relax

Harm reduction is an approach to addiction which challenges me. Let Louise’s story challenge you. A gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/h...

We got her laughing today. She was explaining how close we were to downtown Kansas, Illinois, and to her table how I got in trouble climbing the water tower. Who am I? Who knows, but she was thrilled to see me.

If Donald Trump were anyone but the president, his third random killing would have been bigger news than his second and the fourth would have been bigger news still

Happy Hobbit Day! September 22nd is Bilbo & Frodo's birthdate. www.jrrjokien.com/p/happy-hobb...

Well said, Jim. Read his short essay to the end. Gift link: wapo.st/3IBFPb1

Jeremiah 8:18-9:1, preaching under the title “A River Runs Through It” at Woodside Presbyterian Church tomorrow, 10:30 am. After months of preaching from Luke’s Gospel, I’m spending the next four weeks in Jeremiah & his Lamentations. 1/2

One of our founding participants in the Licking County Coalition for Housing in 1992 & 1993. Godspeed, Jana. www.newarkadvocate.com/obituaries/p...

My @NewarkAdvocate column addresses what I know we'll still be talking about this weekend, & where I was last week when Charlie Kirk was killed. Some thoughts of both mine & his. www.newarkadvocate.com/story/opinio...

Brad Lepper & I will be doing tours at the Octagon today at 12:30 pm & 3:00 pm -- 125 N. 33rd St. in Newark -- as part of marking the 2nd anniversary of the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks inscription on the World Heritage List. Come celebrate & learn with us! hopewellearthworks.org/2000-years-o...

It’s all true. www.thereportingproject.org/bright-spot-...

"Did you know I once worked at McDonalds?"

"That normalcy isn’t just about what it makes, but how it feels, looks, & behaves, which is about as generic a Midwestern city as possible, complete with surrounding corn fields, high school football games, Mexican restaurants with religious icons... 1/3 walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/walking-mi...

*taps the sign*

My flag is out today for the dual commemoration of September 17, 1787 as the day the Constitutional Convention signed their initial draft, & on the same day in 1788 the Congress of Confederation certified the ratification of the U.S. Constitution by the states; also... 1/3

My kid called to get some advice about a buying a new mattress and I told him an old sailcloth filled with gleaned straw has fit the bill for his mother and me for the last several decades

Four minutes you won't regret spending, in memoriam for Robert Redford, and the backstory of a lovely performance I posted links to yesterday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2-B...

Lots of highbrow praise for Robert Redford, but his underplayed Secretary Pierce in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” was flawless. “Oh, Renata, I wish you would have knocked.”

people have already mentioned SNEAKERs, THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR and of course ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN as great redford performances, let me recommend THE CANDIDATE, which is really one of the best movies ever made about american politics

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

It feels like the door to an entire era of American cinema has been finally and irrevocably closed. RIP. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

Here’s how many are responding to me over sharing today is 100 days to #Christmas…

First fresh loaves in a month; fairly good but I’m getting some “hinging” on the top crust. I score each three times along the length: not sure what I’m doing wrong? #BreadBakers help me out!

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"