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The View from Mudsock Heights: A New Electronic Twist to an Age-Old Addiction
By Dennis E. Powell | Aug 5, 2010 at 23:16:54
It’s been a month, so I suppose there’s a chance it will hold: after several decades, I’ve quit smoking. Indeed, the last time I’d gone this long without a cigarette I was probably 16 years old. There is nothing that would delight me more than to be able to tell you that it has been an heroic struggle, unless maybe it would be to say that I feel oh-so-much better. Neither of those things would be true, though.
The View from Mudsock Heights: Good News Reminds Me I Have a Lot of Work to Do Before Winter
By Dennis E. Powell | Jul 30, 2010 at 21:37:35
Happy surprises are so rare that when one occurs it’s worth passing along. I had been worried that I was running out of propane. It had been a year or more since the big tank got filled and, glancing at the gauge a few weeks ago I saw it was pretty low.
Sometimes a Lake and a Powered Down Cell Phone Are All You Need
By Timothy R. Butler | Jul 24, 2010 at 22:4:23
Henry David Thoreau famously wrote on life by a pond some one hundred and fifty-six years ago. As I sat looking out a window upon glistening water earlier this week, I realized quibbles with the transcendentalists aside, I too needed a Walden Pond.
The View from Mudsock Heights: Sea Salt? Organic Sugar? What Exactly are We Talking About Here?
By Dennis E. Powell | Jul 19, 2010 at 23:15:7
The chips tasted pretty good — then I saw the words that made me put them down. No, the bag did not say “contains triglycerides” or “full of transfats.” It said — proudly, if you can believe it — “with sea salt.”
The View from Mudsock Heights: I Thought I Knew About Tomato Growing, But I Was Wrong
By Dennis E. Powell | Jul 15, 2010 at 20:1:18
This year I may have to can some tomatoes. The “putting up” of vegetables was an annual ritual when I was a child, and as a grownup I’ve threatened to do it from time to time, but this year it might just happen.
The Music Files: The Evolution of Robin Thicke
By Jason Kettinger | Jul 14, 2010 at 23:39:35
The second of four releases by Robin Thicke in 2006, the Evolution of Robin Thicke made him a star. As a journey through sixteen tracks, this album is tantalizingly uneven. Even so, if the next releases ever add up to a total album, this guy will be on top of the world.
The View from Mudsock Heights: Pictures Need Captions if They’re to Be Worth a Thousand Words
By Dennis E. Powell | Jul 7, 2010 at 17:57:39
Who are these people? What is this place? If I had a dime for every time I’ve asked those questions in the last week, I’d be well-set financially.
The View From Mudsock Heights: A Dreaded Task Brings My Sister and Me in Touch with Long-Dead Relatives
By Dennis E. Powell | Jun 27, 2010 at 21:6:0
The attic was hot, very dusty in a way that attics full of boxes can be, and peculiarly exciting. My family has usually succeeded in resisting an alarming tradition, that of getting rid of everything a relative owned as soon as possible after his or her death. When my mom died three summers ago, all her stuff got packed into boxes and taken to the attic of my sister’s house in Milwaukee. Now my sister was moving and my mother’s possessions needed to be dealt with.
The View from Mudsock Heights: Memories of an Old Vacation Spark New Appreciation of How Safe We Are Right Here
By Dennis E. Powell | Jun 19, 2010 at 23:38:4
Looking at the old picture, I had to laugh. I took it in the summer of 1986 in the Texas panhandle, while on vacation with my girlfriend. She was from New England and had as much knowledge of the space between there and California as most of us have of, say, Madagascar. This is not a condition at all unusual in the northeast.
The Music Files: Memory Almost Full
By Jason Kettinger | Jun 16, 2010 at 11:31:6
I found Paul McCartney’s 2007 album, Memory Almost Full lying around my house. Though I am young and conservative after a fashion — having grown tired of the insipid statism and relentless conventional wisdom that emanates from the generation which gave us the Beatles — I thought this 2007 release would be intriguing. And it was.
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