Bloomington
November 13, 2021 Going to chronicle my IU Dads' Weekend here in short updates. FRIDAY, Nov 12 — It's a pristine Midwestern day in this…
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In My Room
November 12, 2021 For years I sat in my Evansville bedroom (roughly ages 14-18), devouring everything within reach — non-fiction, literature, magazines, whatever came through…
A Veteran’s Day tale
*written in 1983 Jim Wade is my father. He was 12 when World War II began for the United States. Anyone who was alive then remembers…
The write stuff
The understated excellence of the Montblanc 221 I’ve been a fountain pen fan since Christmas 1984, the year my brother gifted me a Montblanc “student”…
Basketball is back
November 9, 2021 Happy November! I decided to write something daily here all month... hope you'll stop by occasionally to see what’s on my mind.…
Excellent Media Experiences* Part II
* Before the Internet! Nov 8, 2021 Happy November Challenge, in which I resolve to write something daily all month long. The second installment of…
Words x 46
Capturing items that might otherwise be forgotten - trivial, funny, big - for 46 years Nov 7, 2021 On this day in 1975 I started…
The Young Man at 22
November 6, 2021 It’s Ben Wade‘s 22nd birthday today! I’m proud of my eldest, who has always shown poise, maturity and humor beyond his years.…
Sentimental Hygiene
November 4, 2021 It's November, I'm writing daily, and "sentimentalizing childhood memories" is what I've been up to in these pages so far. So, let’s…
Excellent Media Experiences* Part I
*Pre-Internet November 3, 2021 My buddy Eric and I started a discussion of “media things” that existed in the 1970s and 80s: technologies, events and…
Stuart Wade 