The Fies Files

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] I’ve had good and bad jobs,...

I had a busy fun weekend. On Saturday, the Charles M. Schulz Museum launched "The Essential Peanuts," a book-and-more celebrating ...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] I was an adult before I rea...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] Some cave paintings in Spai...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] Following up my recent piec...

The colonnade at right attached the East Wing to the main White House structure, center. The grass and bushes at left were part of the Jacqu...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] I spent most of my teenage ...

Anyone need cookies for 600? My late mother-in-law, Juanita, spent her career as a lunch lady for a middle school (lunch ladies don't ha...

Gathered in the grass of Doyle Park at the end of the route. Made a little good trouble today. Karen, our daughters, our niece Claire and I ...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] Somewhere in a backyard in ...

The last photo we took of the wall of flame coming over the hills toward us as we evacuated.  Tonight is a grim anniversary for my family an...

My pal Craig Yoe offered to send me a copy of his new kids book, Captain LOL + Rubber Chicken: Har Har! , if I'd consider mentioning it ...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] “I am sorry this letter is ...