Posts by Hank

Sunday, April 15 was the big day.  I put the top down on my Jeep, and that’s how it would stay — at least for the next 7 months.  Oh, sure, you can yank it back up in a heavy rainstorm, but I generally don’t bother.  I just suck it up.  That’s why Jeep put those rubber plugs under the carpeting …

Last week I walked into the playroom to a sight I might never see again:  Ricky the Beagle asleep on the couch — with …

We got off to a late start.  Those of you who followed my September cross-country road trip have heard this refrain all too often.   (Getting up and getting out has never been my long s…

Last Thursday I ran into an old writing acquaintance at Barnes & Noble.  She asked me what I’ve been up to.  “You wouldn’t kno…

Why we feel the way we feel about beagles: •  The very name “beagle” is a cute name  (American Staffordshire Terrier?  Rottweiler?  Scottish Deerhound?  I don’t think so . . . ) •  Their velvet ears (OMG!) •  The way it looks when those ears blow back and up in the wind •  Snoopy is a beagle [cap…

This has been a tough March Madness for me. As if it’s not bad enough that I currently wallow in the 24th spot in my son Matt’s 31-person pool, Carol — Matt’s mo…

Carol and I spent the weekend before last skiing in Vermont.  I should say I spent it skiing in Vermont; Carol had just undergone PRPT — platelet-rich plasma therapy — on both her left knee and right elbow.  PRPT is the breakthrough non-invasive alternative to surgery, and it’s getting lots of …

“Just so you know, there’s a player for the Caps [Washington D.C.’s pro hockey team] named Jay Beagle.”  This was in an e-mail I received yesterday from a BEAGLE MAN follower from our nation’s capital. [ca…

I’d gone to see The Artist (run-away winner at the Academy Awards yesterday) last month with a big chip on my shoulder.  Carol and I usually agree on which movies we choose, but not this time…

For me, some of the best parts of Lin-sanity, now well into its third week (I know, I know — doesn’t it seem like we’ve never not known about J-Lin?), are the little things.  Like last night’s exchange between Lin and Kris Humphries when they bumped into each other in the tunnel between locker r…