Treggiari

I thought I’d post one of my favorite pictures of my darling boy when he was 2 1/2 and we didn’t cut his hair.

Today on my walk about four or five chipmunks darted across the road in front of me, one at a time. It was like they were playing chicken or something. Perhaps it was a rite of passage. You know, run […]

I’m not sure who it was- the British minister of education, perhaps, who announced that reluctant readers, most of whom are boys, should be encouraged to read Dickens rather than comic books. Now, I love Dickens and I even quite […]

Just finished watching David Attenborough’s excellent dvd series “Planet Earth” for the third time. I have been a fan of his since I was a kid. I used to watch him on television and take notes, and my copy of […]

I’ve often wondered- even before I had my own kids- about where people get their goodness from. Their innate goodness I mean, the moral fiber, not learned behavior like not belching in public and not taking the biggest slice of […]

Being a writer is not the most secure of pursuits and I’m not even talking about emotionally (we’re not flogging that old horse again!) I’m talking about the cash, the lucre, the livelihood. It’s a slippery slope, trying to juggle […]