Monday, February 16th Due to a combination of factors, I had been in for the long weekend. The isolation of working on a text leads you to interesting places, and the Harmonicist John Popper once sang, “sometimes I think I need a prison in order to dream of being free.” […]
Monthly Archives: February 2026
Monday February 9th I’ve made sufficient progress on the sections of the book that I have to write that I don’t feel guilty stepping out for lunch with Mom, who has come to town for a school friend’s birthday. We go to Wvrst in Union Station, where she correctly points […]
Diary of a Local Beer Man – Week of February ...
Monday, February 2nd For as long as I can remember, Groundhog Day has been marked by the change of my profile picture on Facebook to one of Bill Murray in the truck with the rodent. Bill Murray traded Ghostbusters in order to make an adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s The […]
Diary of a Local Beer Man – Week of February ...
Monday, Jan 26th The deep freeze is well and truly upon us, and looking at the forecast for the next couple of weeks, it looks like we’re in four-layer territory. If your primary mode of transport and exercise is walking, then -25 with the wind chill does you no favours. […]