PART 10 ALERT TO THE CROSS-COUNTRY TRAVELER IN LATE 2010—there are no Starbucks along I-80. Nor is National Public Radio available except in mere sputterings, especially through the Paleozoic-era standard issue radio in a Toyota Corolla rented through Thrifty Rental Cars. What I wouldn’t give right now for an Americano. …
PART 9: We’re taking our Cleveland detour for Joe. But I also realize that being the third day now that I’m wearing the same cardigan, admittedly over one of the new T-shirts Cheryl has bought me and Joe, that I am indeed in need of respite. The sky is clear …
Part 8 It was in Pennsylvania, I realize, when I seemed to wake up on this cross-country trip. It started the night before in Clinton County as Cheryl settled in to a nap, the man-boy fell into his bio on Lennon, and I fell into a trance of sorts as …
[This essay was written by my wife Cheryl and me shortly after the terrorist attacks on New York City in September 2001] On September 11, when a catastrophic event rocked our New York, we little survivors in our little lives seemed to set our course in curious unison. Our destination? …
The on-ramp to I-84 is a bobsled chute that propels us away from the Microcosm, temporarily southwest towards Waterbury and away from the ESPN headquarters in nearby Bristol. Ah…ESPN—a microcosm through cable unto itself. A place where a programming team sits around all day in complimentary Nike gear and continues …
I was out shoveling snow yesterday evening after 6 hours at the ER where I …
I wanted to follow up on one of my previous posts about anthropogenic climate change skeptics, like myself. Meg Bostrom, co-author of a 2009 report on the current climate conversation, makes an interesting point in a recent Washington Post column. It’s a point I’ve made in this blog, although admittedly she …
[Sensitivity alert: the “c” word and the “f” word are used in this post.] The title of Christopher Hitchens’ memoir, Hitch 22 is based on the brilliantly acerbic WWII satire by Joseph Heller Catch-22, the title of which has entered the lexicon and describes a no-win situation, a “catch” that …
Copyright, David G. Pace, 2010
In 1992 I moved from the religion of my childhood, to the religion of my ancestors. But I would come to believe that jumping spokes was only a lateral move. All spokes are required to hold the wheel of religion intact with God at the center. But what if the …
