Learning
As you age, how do you insure that you continue to enlarge your universe? How do you educate yourself? What do you read? How do you grow? That is our dilemma when we grow old, and we all find our Read More …
Author: Russell Little
Simple Pleasures
We were supposed to be at Mount Fuji in Japan today. That didn’t happen. We had scheduled spending Melinda’s birthday exploring Kyoto: wandering through temples, eating in little restaurants and drinking in closet-size bars, all down streets narrower than most Read More …
Mother’s Day: Guest Blog by Melinda Little
I love Mother’s Day. It’s a springtime holiday so the weather is usually nice. The day often involves brunch — and who doesn’t love a good brunch? When the kids were little we usually celebrated Mother’s Day at a ball Read More …
Our New Normal: A Guest Blog by Melinda Little
It was a glorious day with lots of blue sky and dry, warm temperatures. Russell and I were at the park walking the dogs together, as we do often these days. There were more people at the park than we Read More …
Day ??? of the COVID-19 Quarantine — A Guest Blog by Melinda Little
Houston, Texas, April 19, 2020 Greetings from the inside, where I remain constantly — well, constantly except for essential runs to Costco and Trader Joes and my daily walk (weather permitting). I am pleased to report that we are no Read More …
Easter, Corona-Style: A Guest Blog by Melinda Little
As I sit here in my finest Easter pajamas watching church on Youtube, I am reminiscing about Easters past. I am not exactly upset that I am able to enjoy the solitude of a Sunday morning at home with my Read More …
Easter and the Petty Concerns of the Quarantined
“So how many weeks have we been locked up?” Melinda asked me. “Three?” I wasn’t sure. I can’t tell one day from the next. There’s no feel to the day: Monday feels the same as Thursday. More Exercise. More Weight. Read More …
Pandemic! Guest Blog by Melinda Little
Pandemic. It’s a word I knew, of course. I had heard of the Spanish Flu before. In recent years I learned the most about it from watching Downton Abbey. We might have learned about it in school, too, in history Read More …
A Sense of Humor Helps…a Bit
My wife was walking by herself in the park across the street from our place yesterday, when a woman from the building said hello. While keeping her distance, of course, the woman said that she’d hoped to see Melinda out Read More …
A Virus Update from Small-Town Ohio
A Guest Post by Sue Hawley Living in a small town in Northeast Ohio is pretty much like any American small town. Local politics, businesses, and schools unite the community. We are uniquely located far enough from Akron (once the Read More …
The Palace and the Temptation of the Lock
So how are you getting through these days? We’re all on the frontlines, I’d say. In our constant struggle not to kill each other in this time of forced togetherness, my wife and her dog have built a “palace” on Read More …
The Damn Dog
This morning I wrote the nicest blog on journaling and how petty my discomfort was in the face of what we all must do. After I wrote it, I went into the kitchen to reheat my coffee and I discovered Read More …
Corona Journaling
In Houston, I expect we’ll begin the next step up in Covid-19 this morning, or one morning soon. Not just closed businesses and staying at home, but what sounds initially a lot like like confinement. Once I read the rules Read More …
Negative Visualization
Before Caesar crossed the Rubicon, he offered one final compromise with the Optimates, the group in power in Rome lead by Pompey and Cato, among others. Pompey was ready to agree until his mind was changed by Cato’s arguments. Cicero, Read More …
Court Stories and Novel Writing
Something I often want to blog about are my days in Court. I have had hundreds of adventures over the course of my career, as any trial lawyer has had, but one can’t just blog about them. You have clients Read More …