Hosea's Blog

I saw this cartoon a couple days ago, in a copy of the New Yorker that was maybe a month old.  It's the perfect riposte to my normal, o...

Early yesterday morning, Son 2 joined his class at the Train Station for an overnight school field trip. They will be back late this afterno...

A while ago -- well, maybe it was a month or two -- we were visiting my parents who live a couple of hours' drive away from here. Late i...

Last night I dreamed that I had some kind of job at a desk somewhere but that I was roaming the industrial parts of the (very large) plant w...

I reflected this afternoon on how hard it is for me to make other people do things -- how hard it is to make myself step in to push other ...

After my last installment , I suppose I should wind up. Friday afternoon came and went. I drove Son 2 home from school. He didn't say an...

A while ago, D sent me a copy of Julian Barnes's recent novel The Sense of an Ending . Finally yesterday afternoon I started to read it,...