DAILY BLOG
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I must confess that I have become an indiscriminate reader as I have grown older. Early in my reading life, during my teens and 20s, I read exclusively what is commonly referred to as “Literary Fiction” (admittedly a snobbish and parochial term). At some point though that changed. Now, I read whatever fiction catches my… Read more
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Happy Friday! Read more
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Another day, another cup of coffee. Read more
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We made it! Read more
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Today is post number 100 here at ClimbingSky. Since re-starting ClimbingSky, I have missed posting only once. And that was by accident. I actually had a post for that day and had scheduled it in advance to publish. But somehow, I had set it to publish in 2025 and not 2024. Oh well. As we… Read more
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“Music always sounds better on Friday.” — Lou Brutus Read more
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As I bike, and as Sue and I take urban hikes in Minneapolis and St. Paul and other towns, we often come across Little Libraries. I always take a look at what is offered and usually take a picture or two. If the books are not interesting the library itself often is. I once played… Read more
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According to the MyBeerNation app on my iPhone, I have been to 195 different breweries/brewpubs. Since it took me awhile once I got the app to figure out that I could add breweries and brewpubs that were not already on the app, I know that the number is higher, more than 200. But officially according… Read more
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I have been experimenting for awhile now with boredom. By that I mean, leaving my iPhone in my pocket when I am in a waiting room, or have arrived early someplace, or am just not otherwise engaged. At work it has been relatively easy because I just leave my phone on my desk. If I… Read more
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Sometime before Covid, after blogging on several different sites for more than 10 years, I wrote what I believed at the time to be my very last blog post. I closed my laptop, let the domain I had go, and started working on other “projects.” Recently though, like a phantom limb, I have been feeling… Read more
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