Have you ever stopped to think about sitcoms?  No, no, hear me out.  I don't watch very many, but it occurs to me that the reason they...

This past weekend's trip to Brooklyn has been months in the making.  Laura dragged herself all the way out to Marlinton in July ; return...

Extremely late holiday post, ahoy!  I apologize for the belatedness of it, I do.  My only excuse is that the holidays ended on a serious dow...

Three New Year's Resolutions 1. Read Moby Dick. 2. Get a job. 3. Learn what an f-stop is and how to use it well. That's all I...

I've always been the sort of person who listens to the kind of music I like but doesn't purport to know anything about music in gene...

This is a story I posted on my other blog last Christmas, and it remains the quintessential Williams family Christmas tradition, so I'm...

I have been scolded for neglecting this blog.  And Jamie shamed me by posting a whole bunch of December-in-Marlinton photos last night. ...