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An open message to one of our cats
I understand that my laptop keyboard is a warm place to perch. I’m even willing to overlook your occasional contribution to a document or email. But please, edit your work. Everyone knows … more →
Bart Modern's Bowleg
An open message to one of our cats
Bart Modern wrote 11 months ago: I understand that my laptop keyboard is a warm place to perch. I’m even willing to overlook yo … more →
One down
Bart Modern wrote 11 months ago: December 1, 8:25 a.m.: “Christmas Wrapping” played on 94.7 WMAS out of Springfield, MA. … more →
Post holiday post
Bart Modern wrote 12 months ago: 1) We broke with tradition this year, and abandoned the obligatory turkey with all the trimmins in f … more →
Hail
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: On a beautiful fall night in 2004, I watched, breathless, as Keith Foulke fielded a chopper back to … more →
I'm Mr. Icicle!
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: One of the unforseen consequences of my recent — and, for the moment, successful — fitne … more →
What's for lunch? A drama in two brief scenes.
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: Dramatis Personae: Bart Modern, a father The Kid, a kid Scene 1: A kitchen and dining room, somewher … more →
Fall-ing, yes I am fall-ing
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Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: Perfect warm sunny October afternoon. Standing in the middle of an apple orchard, washing down a per … more →
Essays^3
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: Read three interesting collections of essays recently by three wildly different essayists Maps and L … more →
Nonsense Passing as Radio
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: The October 1, 2008 edition of National Public Radio’s Morning Edition featured an incredibly … more →
What I wish he would have said
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: I haven’t seen anyone pick up on this nugget from the first debate last Friday night: In speak … more →
How to blow this thing wide open
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: The impulsive and reactive nature of Senator McCain’s campaign over the course of the last wee … more →
End of summer bookdump
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: Some more of what I’ve been reading recently… How I Learned to Cook: Culinary Education … more →
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: I recently read Dan Koeppel’s Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World. I’m … more →
In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Seven words. Michael Pollan boils it all down to seven words. … more →
Mindless Eating: Why we eat more than we think, by Brian Wansink
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: An interesting, if flawed book. Mr. Wansink’s central thesis is that we aren’t aware of … more →
Berkshur Culchur, Fershur
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: Summer in the Berkshires has a lot to recommend it. Winter too, I suppose, if you happen to ski (I d … more →
Food on the fly
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: Tentative plans for a family evening out last night gave way to some later than anticipated work tim … more →
My brain hates me.
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: So I’m trying to eat well. I’m trying to exercise regularly. I’m starting to see s … more →
The hills are alive, with the sound of wheezing...
Bart Modern wrote 1 year ago: So it was the @#$%ing Congo Bars that had me hiking halfway up a goddamned mountain*. I made a batch … more →
