by aaron | Apr 28, 2015 | Essays
One way to measure the changing seasons is by the clothing you can remove. Yesterday I ran a loop around Discovery Park on Seattle’s western edge and then sat on the grass overlooking the Sound. The waters were streaked gray and cold. Black mountains rose in the...
by aaron | Apr 13, 2015 | Essays
Scholars estimate that there are currently between five-hundred-eleven and seventy-two-thousand-nine-hundred-fourteen reasons to celebrate the life of Samuel Beckett, who was born on this day in 1906. I list below only a few, with no organizational reference to...
by aaron | Apr 7, 2015 | Essays
Generally speaking, we here at And Why Not? prefer to focus on the positive. There’s enough crap in the world that when given the opportunity to be affirmative, we take it. Hence the recent reflections on what an awesome song November Rain is. But sometimes, in...
by aaron | Apr 4, 2015 | Essays
When I was a kid we had chickens. The chickens lived in a coop in the barn, but during the days we let them roam about the lawn, an activity they seemed to enjoy until the day a neighbor’s dogs came for a visit. The dogs did exactly what dogs will do to chickens...