This and that
Random thoughts from a random thinker
BRISTOL
The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball... This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good and ...
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FREEDOM WEEKS Reprise
I first posted this essay in July of 1920, a different time for our country. A lot was going on then: COVID was spreading across the country and around the world, Joe ...
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The End of the Ice
It’s March 17, and a small patch of ice remains afloat on the 1860 Reservoir in Wethersfield. Just two days ago, 80% of the pond was covered with ice but now, finally, ...
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EMISSIONS TESTING
EMISSIONS TESTING I went to the emissions testing center this morning. Registered vehicles in Connecticut that are more than four years old must be tested biennially. We own two such vehicles, ...
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FAN
Author's note: As many of my readers know, I was born and raised in western New York, and I have been a Buffalo Bills fan since their first game in 1960. I ...
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PAY THE MAN!
Last week I published my first essay in a year and a half. I’ve been working on a different writing project over that time—more about that in a few weeks. I finished ...
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National Tape Measure Day
Author's note: Yes, I've been away from here for a while, but I haven't stopped writing. I've decided to come back to this blog to post some things I have to say, ...
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A New Museum Comes to Town
If you’re like I am (relatively old, retired, still living in a house you like), one of the conversations you fall into regularly goes something like this: “I don’t know how we ...
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Author: Mark Korber
Mark Korber is a semi-retired curmudgeon who can’t quite stop practicing law. He is known to his friends to have an opinion on most anything and to express it, in detail, to anyone who shows the slightest interest. He writes about regionalism, Hartford, family and the Buffalo Bills.