Eric Scheske

> "Nisbet's best line ever, and he meant it: 'A square block in Manhattan has more community than the entire city of Tucson.'" https://t.co/kpR0L4CCxY > — The American Conservative (@amconmag) April 13, 2018 [https://twitter.com/amconmag/status/984758095057305600?ref_src=twsrc%

Miscellany Working Saturday. I'm blessed to have a job with flexible hours that enable me to take advantage of nice days like we had this week, but it is a job that requires me to put in the hours, so when the rain comes out, I go in.

"Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum." GKC I only drink when I'm not wretched without it, so I hope that takes me out of the grey-faced slum, but man, I've been

Bullets **Transplanting lettuce was rough. The plugs were too wet so they kept falling apart, and it was back-breaking work. I got 26 into the ground. If 20 survive, I'll be content. I'm letting the others dry out. I'm hoping to plant at least

More Rambling: Medicine Well, far out. I've been trying to get my cholesterol down naturally for five years now without success, until now. It looks like the vegan approach is working. My bad cholesterol dropped from 156 (last October) to 118 (March blood work). Pretty much everything else

Miscellaneous Rambling I've started something new: hybrid reading. That's my own term to describe digital reading in traditional book format. I decided to try it out when I found myself wanting to know the history of Poland better. My first thought was, "I'll

Miscellaneous Rambling: Towns I'm blessed to live in my hometown. Not many people who spent seven years in college can claim such a thing (unless we include "big city" within the definition of "hometown"). I'm further blessed to have four kids who

Nashville Ramblings This is Thomas Hart Benton's The Sources of Country Music, which is on display at the County Music Hall of Fame. I like it. It reminds me of a Grant Wood painting, which I guess isn't surprising. They're both apparently representatives of

Return from Nashville Marie and I took the three little kids to Nashville for their spring break trip. Alex and Abbie were able to get days off work and joined us, giving us a clear super-majority (7 out of 9 . . . ain't bad). We got back yesterday. Needless to

"With respect to self-talk, I might be at the golf course having the best game of my life and then suddenly find myself triple-bogeying the last five holes. How does this happen? Our unconscious belief about who we are and what we are capable of sets parameters for our