Nov 3, 2012 | REFLECTIONS
By Edward H. Garcia I know it’s not necessary, but is there really anything wrong with looking at the tube of toothpaste you’re squeezing in the morning and thinking, “Someday — and it could be any da — I will squeeze a toothpaste tube for the last time”?...
Jun 3, 2012 | REFLECTIONS
By Edward H. Garcia You get to my age and you start worrying about decrepitude. That’s not the same as getting older—which is inevitable, and it’s not the same as looking older, which in spite of Ginger Roger’s best efforts, is also inevitable. But I’m hoping that...
Jul 3, 2011 | REFLECTIONS
By Edward H. Garcia Bill Faulkner sets up his video by the side of a narrow street in Callender Lake and focuses it on Don Hollis who is kneeling by a patch of sand and clay, trowel in hand. As Bill makes final adjustments to tape Don harvesting “Callender Lake...
Apr 3, 2011 | REFLECTIONS
By Edward H. Garcia For the past few weeks I have been reading Anthony Trollope’s Barchester Towers on my iPod Touch. An iPod Touch is essentially an iPhone without the phone. The one I have, last year’s model, also lacks a camera, but otherwise it shares most of the...
Apr 3, 2011 | REFLECTIONS
By Edward H. Garcia We see them all the time around Callender Lake — a young couple, often with a couple of kids “helping out” clearing a newly-acquired lot. They’ll come on weekends for a few months, working on their land and probably dreaming of what...
Mar 3, 2011 | REFLECTIONS
By Edward H. Garcia My wife and I have been clearing parts of our property in Callender Lake. We live off the lake and have several acre lots around us—lots of privacy and lots of brush. Every winter we like to get out and push back against Nature and expand what we...
