• Swish two, three, four

    Anticipation for a fun day of wine tasting has begun.  Jenny and I and some other friends are going to do this Pioneer Wine Trail, which seems to be a coalition of mid michigan wineries.  It’s kind of a cool setup, you get a little basket when you start and at each winery you get …

  • Elaphe guttata on a dirigible.

    I saw Snakes on a Plane Monday night. I wasn’t planning on seeing it at all, in fact I was distinctly planning on not seeing it until it was out on DVD (if then) but thanks to a phone call from Steve, my heart softened. He said it was good and thoroughly enjoyable in a …

  • Thoughts on identity

    On my eight-o-clock-came-too-soon drive into work Monday morning I had managed to rub enough of the crusties from my eyes to notice the license plate on the car ahead of me read, “SCCRMOM.” It was an appropriate vehicle too, some sort of large Chevrolet that looked like the consequence of an SUV kicking on the …