If you skip college, who will fill your head with muck you will never use? Where will you learn to play beer pong, kiss a classmate in the rain, get all blotto on Thirsty Thursdays?
Month: August 2025
Our Swiftie Moment
To goose these late-summer days, I take my grandchild to a Taylor Swift concert the other evening, in a park by the seashore.
Don’t Do This!
Things NOT to do: Blow off good books. Watch daytime TV. Fail your friends.
Help Me, Rhonda
There are lots of ways to love a summer night. Restoring a sun-baked old Jeep to its former glory might be in my top five.
My $54 Shoes
The schnitzel is your most-extraordinary muscle, the keel to your massive ship. It runs from the back of the tongue, past the tonsils, then loops to the knee, banjos back up to the pancreas, tickles the spleen...
Life Is Ice Cream
Weep no more, summer. We are serenading you in bird song and misadventure.
Quirky College Towns
“Everyone up here is rebelling,” explains Smartacus, who is about to begin his final year in Eugene.
Eating Well?
I’ve always received sufficient emotional protein from a martini. Still, some people insist on ordering food too. Whatever.
Purrs and Murmurs
Towering over all other literary types: the sportswriter.