At Mont St Michel
May 4, 2022
Feuilleton & Cycling
Back in our mid-twenties, my fiancee and I were riding our bikes across western France. Our finish line was the small city of Loudeac, where Fée's brother was about to marry his first wife. The bikes were vintage...
Seadogs at the Sportsman's Grill
Apr 15, 1994
Feuilleton
You will find two of the founding members of Portland's storied Twilight League habituating the same dark haunt they've patronized since 1951 — The Sportsman's Grill, just a couple blocks up from Hadlock Field, where the Sea Dogs will make their debut April 18. It's a Saturday in March, just after the noon hour, and a light snow falls on an old city trying to recapture baseball — and with it, perhaps, its idle youth.
The Fear of Not Dying
Feb 4, 1994
Feuilleton
7:50 A.M. and my father, heavily sedated and johnnied, is being prepped for the first angiogram of the day at the local hospital. He's got angina, and can't do much of any-of thing without the pain flaring up. Given a choice, he'd rather be home fighting off an attack with coffee and Tylenol than lying here, about to get word that his cardiovascular system is truly a mess. I'm sitting in a hallway waiting room, trying to kill a couple of hours in a too-long morning with a book of German philosophy.