Joe Beernink
Author of NOWHERE WILD, NOWHERE HOME
Today is absolutely gorgeous in the Pacific Northwest. Here’s proof. This is the view from my bedroom window. That dark object beyond the trees? The sleeping Mount Rainier. Shhh. Don’t wake...
Tom Kowalski died today. I didn’t know the man. Not personally, anyway. But news of his death this morning stunned me and I had to fight back tears while sitting in...
I bought my first CD player back in the summer of 1992 while living in Toronto. And then I did what everyone else did who was getting those new-fangled audio devices,...
I’m sure I’m not the only one who ties certain songs to phases, days or people of my life. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what songs have are part...
We did not ride. The weather failed to cooperate, and the couch and the kids did. So instead of trying to ride two days in a row, I napped, and drank...
As I said in my last blog entry, I just finished reading ‘The Motion of the Ocean’, and also mentioned that I used to have B-HAGs of my own, including my...
Where to start… where to start? I can’t cover everything in one entry, so I’ll make a series of short entries for each topic that comes to mind. No one wants...
Look at me! I’m blogging… from the train! I’m mobile now! Lookout world. Holy exclamation points, Batman. Okay, I got my new laptop half an hour ago and ran to catch...
What I wanted to say to the woman next to me on the train last night, who was on her cell phone the whole time “Lady, this isn’t your office. Now...
Maybe its just me, but I’ve noticed a disturbing drop in customer service skills lately. I’m pretty sure that this is the effect of people not caring about their jobs because...
Joe Beernink 