August 5, 2024   Greetings from the traveler,   You might go all of your life and not know the name Lazarus Lake.  It’s not even the...

July 22, 2024   Greetings from the welcome,   I have a basket of words I’ve saved over the years.  Some I wrote down thinking I’d look up...

July 8, 2024 Greetings from the treasure, Some weeks ago, I was in the car with Finley, who at the time was on the sunrise side of two...

July 1, 2024 Greetings from the cheap seats, By the time I began seeing movies at the Palace Theater, it had lost some of its original...

June 24, 2024 Greetings from the lucky one, I’m a little confused.  This is hardly remarkable, since I have been in some version of this...

By David Smith June 17, 2024 Greetings from the meanderer, When I was a kid, it was a common thing to build a ‘fort’.  We made them out...

June 10, 2024 Greetings from the sappy one, Recently I deliberately spent thousands of dollars to get nothing.  Nothing.  The absence of...

June 3, 2024 Greetings from the bonnie banks, It is a rare delight to begin an adventure with strong expectations, only to have them...

May 13, 2024 Greetings from the threshold, A couple of days ago I stood in a tiny house crowded with people, all celebrating an event...

April 29, 2024 Greetings from where we’re headed, I love stones.  I love their shape and texture, the beauty in each, their history and...

April 22, 2024 Greetings from The Boss, My relationship with Bruce Springsteen has been a sporadic, but loyal, friendship.  There were a...

April 15, 2024 Greetings from another time, I’m in the middle of reading ‘Harlem Shuffle’, and among the excellent writing there was a...

April 1, 2024 Greetings from the recipient, One of my oldest friends sent me a picture of his brother.  It’s an ordinary thing, something...

March 18, 2024 Greetings from the celebration, “We are a part of a Mystery we do not understand, and we are grateful.”  Brian Doyle This...

February 26, 2024 Greetings from the tribe, My brother has a cheap watch, nine dollars on Amazon.  It’s a couple of years old.  It lights...

February 19,  2024 Greetings from the day after, There are aches and there are aches. The Austin marathon follows a roughly Texas-shaped...

February 5, 2024 Greetings from the recollection, This weekend I saw clusters of young people walking around our town, the girls squeezed...

January 29, 2024 Greetings from a typo, “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.”   Groucho Marx I thought of this when...

January 22, 2024 Greetings from the first, There is no evidence that the house existed, or the narrow lot that held it, or the...

By David Smith January 8, 2024 Greetings from the arete, I am a runner. It’s not how I introduce myself, not because I’m shy about it,...