At Anthony/Tony/Anfer’s high school, the student body votes on who the commencement speaker should be. There is an initial round of nominees where everyone is eligible. The nominations are collected, counted and the top six named. To his, to our, to everyone's surprise, Anfer's name was one of those final six. The six nominees then write and record a two minute sample of what they would talk ab...

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What you see on the top is a one-hundred-year-old shower stem. What you see on the bottom is what a brand-new replacement of that shower stem looks like. What this photo does not show is the path that led from the top stem to the bottom one. That path began seven years ago when the original shower stem (which is the handle your turn to stop and start the water) started failing. I want to re-draw y...

Marty and I were invited to dinner with a former work colleague (of hers). As we walked up the street to their house, we commented on the number of cars and that someone was having a party. It turns out the people having the party were our people. We somehow thought we were the only guests, but we were not, far from it.

There were maybe fifty people in the large victorian home and M ...

Bella and her boyfriend of five years, Abdi, bought a house. I fear I am part of the reason this happened. They happily occupied an apartment that had been in Abdi's family for many years, but it was not in the safest part of town. Around a Michigan campfire a few years ago, when Bella and I played a what-would-you-change game one night, I said in regard to her, the one and only thing I would wave ...