Monthly Archive: October 2010

October minutiae

Only two more months of posting this ridiculous drivel. October was a month that I pegged to achieve one of the goals I set a year ago. It’s something thousands of people could do,...

Halloween story 2010

There is probably a good reason we all don’t circle around a Halloween tree and exchange gifts at midnight of October 31st. No matter. Halloween remains one of my favorite holidays and one I...

Grown-ups can have hamsters

“A boxer!” the boy exclaimed. We were in the car. Tom T. Hall was singing about old dogs and my kid was pointing out the window at the brown boxer on the suburban lawn....

My microlending boy

Last week around this time, I was in the back of a Volkswagon and sliding out of a misty Rosario, Argentina. The city’s huge monuments and cloud-soaked buildings escaped through the back window as...