Alex Boney
New Year, Old Ennui
The small apple tree in my back yard still has a few apples clinging to their branches months after they should have fallen. They’re not...
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Alex Boney
Aug 16, 2021
Reflections on the End of a 20-Year War
On September 11th, 2001, Kristy and I were moving into a new apartment in Columbus, OH. We had lived in Berlin for a year, and we were...
Alex Boney
Aug 3, 2021
The Layovers You Remember
Four years ago today, Kristy and I started a trip to Frankfurt, Germany. We deliberately scheduled a long layover in San Diego, since...
Alex Boney
Jul 10, 2021
Black Widow is Worth the Wait
Conor and I saw Black Widow in the theater today, and we both loved it. The movie was originally supposed to open in May 2020, but then...
Alex Boney
Jul 4, 2021
The Family Heirloom
Kristy and I received this chip-and-dip plate as a wedding gift almost 19 years ago. Our wedding was in August, so it wasn't some sort of...
Alex Boney
Jun 20, 2021
Father's Day at Camp
Conor has been at Bartle Boy Scouts camp for a week, and today was Visitors Day. He showed us the Lakefront and a cliff overlook called...
Alex Boney
Jun 18, 2021
Almost-Summer Days and Nights
I worked a lot today. I did. I turned in a couple projects and made some good progress on some archival rewrites and did some research...
Alex Boney
Jun 9, 2021
Red Rocks and Majestic Mesas (Part 4)
Day 4: Monday Afternoon and Evening Some random thoughts about Arches National Park: - We saw several roadside signs on our trip that...
Alex Boney
Jun 8, 2021
Red Rocks and Majestic Mesas (Part 3)
Day 3: Monday Morning We tried to get into Arches National Park at 8:00 a.m., but the Parks Service had already shut down the park and...
Alex Boney
Jun 7, 2021
Red Rocks and Majestic Mesas (Part 2)
Day 2: Sunday Yesterday was an episodic travel day with a lot of unique things, so there's no overall narrative. Just a handful of really...
Alex Boney
Jun 6, 2021
Red Rocks and Majestic Mesas (Part 1)
Day 1: Saturday There’s never enough time to do everything you want to do in and around Denver. Even if you had a week here, you wouldn’t...
Alex Boney
May 15, 2021
Stop Saying People Don't Want to Work.
This morning as I was sitting in the bleachers watching Grant play tee-ball, I overheard a conversation a nearby family nearby was...
Alex Boney
May 6, 2021
Pet Grief
I said goodbye to Benjy two years ago today. It's one of those memories that makes me stop for a minute and...not really think, but...
Alex Boney
Mar 16, 2021
Thought Bubbles
I've been going through my phone off and on for the last week, clearing things out in preparation for an upgrade. I've had this phone for...
Alex Boney
Mar 12, 2021
In and Out of Time
R.E.M.’s Out of Time turns 30 years old today. I knew there was music before this album. But I didn’t know there was music like this...
Alex Boney
Feb 25, 2021
Fragments 02/25
Sometimes I see or hear or experience things and put words to them as the day goes by, but they don't really fit anywhere. Occasionally I...
Alex Boney
Feb 21, 2021
City Hiking is Hiking, Too.
Conor’s Scouts troop planned an urban hike in Kansas City yesterday, and Conor was kind enough to let me tag along. We walked more than 6...
Alex Boney
Feb 17, 2021
An Unfortunate Anniversary
I was laid off a year ago today. I don’t know what I’m supposed to call today. Is it a “Laid-off-iversary?” “Anti-versary?” “Professional...
Alex Boney
Jan 2, 2021
Starting a New Year After the Worst Year
Beginning around mid-March last year, I stopped looking at my Facebook memories. I used to look at them pretty often. As the years...
Alex Boney
Dec 31, 2020
The Best Music of 2020
Let’s just get this out of the way up front: This year has sucked in a lot of pretty obvious ways. I’m not going to revisit all of that...
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