Last year I moved back here after living in Colorado for thirty years. One day I was standing at an intersection on the east side of town. A man across the street in a large vehicle yelled, “Do...
I moved back to Kansas City in February 2016, thinking I would probably buy a car at some point, but it’s June and still I haven’t. The work I’ve had since moving here has not...
Ever since I first heard of Tulips on Troost a few years ago, I’ve thought the nonprofit exemplified the kind of restoration that builds community, and I wanted to find out more about it. My reasons...
Today is my eldest brother Matt’s birthday. He was born in 1952, so he would have been 61. He died in late January 2012. I was missing him today, thinking of how I wish I could have broken...
As many of you know, my eldest brother Matt died sometime between January 27 and January 30, when police broke into his apartment and took his body to the coroner. We think the cause of death was a...
I’m sitting in my sister’s house in Kansas City on a Friday night, listening to the train in the distance (last night I heard a great horned owl hooting in the backyard). In a way...
On Friday my brother and I moved my father into the apartment where he’ll be staying for two weeks. If he likes the place, he may move there permanently. I had a long day of doing family stuff...
This morning I walked the Santa Fe Trace trail behind my sister’s house, armed with one of my father’s canes. I took it not to lean on but to use as a weapon against any cobwebs that...
Before I left Hays Wednesday morning, I stopped by the Soda Shoppe for another chocolate coke. I just love watching them fill Styrofoam with cola syrup, chocolate syrup, and soda water. And then I...
I left Kansas City the morning of November 8, driving down Antioch to Shawnee Mission Parkway, stopping briefly by the old mission buildings that used to house Shawnee Indian girls and boys (the...
Note: Hathaway Shoe has closed its Waldo Store. Its other location, in Leawood, Kansas, is J. Hathaway Shoe Boutique. I haven’t been there, but many of the brands are the same.) I had planned...
Monday afternoon I headed north to Brookside again, taking Highway 71 to 63rd Street and passing Research Hospital, where one of my relatives works, and the Landing shopping center, which I remember...