Sweetness

November 2, 1999  Tuesday As Collinsville, Tom and I were having the Greek discussion of the last entry (“Why I Write This Thing 2”), a story broke on the TV that Walter Payton had died at noon.  It’s one of those moments you can’t describe.  Walter had been ill since at least last February when…

A Fan’s Lament

written November 25, 2012   In honor of a recent New York Times restaurant review by Pete Wells:   Love Smith, did you show your face at practice this week in preparation for San Francisco?  Have you watched game film of the 49ers and made it available to players?  Did you help draw up the…

A Cut Above?

written May 2009 Last week the Hubble telescope received its latest–and last–lease on life with an Atlantis face-lift.  First launched in 1990 and operational by 1993, it allowed an intimacy with the heavens that conventional terrestrial lenses could never capture.  It is then fitting that during that same week the eternally Earth-bound Chicago Bears finally gleaned the possibilities of the skies. …