The Fies Files

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Monday until I run out of good ones.] In college, I knew a girl na...

Christmas is nice, Halloween is fun, but today, September 25, is one of my favorite holidays because it's a two-fer: National Daughters ...

  Most people who live in the cities or suburbs don’t see many stars. Certainly fewer than a hundred.  A journalist friend who grew up in th...

The unboxing this morning. Always a thrill to open a package and find newly published books that you had something to do with. Life Achievem...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Monday until I run out of good ones.] I’ve been surprised that my ...

The newspaper article in this link reports what Karen and I were up to yesterday afternoon.  Karen's old boss, county Supervisor James ...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Monday until I run out of good ones.] People like oddness. Magicia...

Yesterday was our first big tomato-harvesting and sauce-making jubilee. Our climate is mild enough that we'll produce tomatoes until the...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Monday until I run out of good ones.] I love kids and kids love me...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Monday until I run out of good ones.] I parachuted out of a plane ...

Before and After: a few days ago, I posted some studies I did in preparation for doing a painting I promised Karen for our living room (you ...

I rarely post about current events for two reasons: nobody cares what I think, nor should they, and; I've never seen a Facebook post cha...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Monday until I run out of good ones.] Studying quantum physics* ta...