Archive - Hits and Missives

Tim’s Tips for Happy Cooking

Recently, I called the customer support line for New York Times subscribers. Seems as though I had neglected my annual subscription rate which now…

May 15 •

When Life Gives You Bagpipes

Life doesn’t just give us lemons. It can dish out any number of things.

May 1 •

April 2024

Alternate versions of classic fairy tales

Apr 17 •

In the Key of G

Recently, I read an article about music and synesthesia. How some well-known composers associated different musical keys with colors. Rimsky-Korsakov…

Apr 3 •

March 2024

A Record of the Easter Sunday Incident

I attest that this is a true statement of the events from that Easter Sunday, March 30th, 1975.

Mar 20 •

Dear Mrs. Spangler

I think there are two distinct camps when it comes to interacting with others of our species. The so-called gregarious types who actually draw energy…

Mar 6 •

February 2024

The Days of Shag and Roses

The subject of this post hearkens back to a simpler time, when kitchens were resplendent in avocado green, an electric knife was a swell idea for a…

Feb 21 •

My Lunch with St. Timothy

At some point during third grade I discovered the day of my patron saint, St. Timothy. On that day, January 26th, I secretly took a new white candle to…

Feb 7 •

January 2024

My Conception Playlist

Music matters in more ways than you can possibly believe. Take, for instance, the scene in Barry Levinson’s brilliant movie Diner, where the group…

Jan 24 •

A Dinner Quartet for the Ages

Which historical luminarios would you invite to dinner?

Jan 10 •

December 2023

A Partial List of Evil Dwarfs

The seven dwarfs of Snow White fame need no introduction. And yes, the plural of dwarf is dwarfs and not dwarves, as we find in the Tolkien books…

Dec 27, 2023 •

A Horse of a Different Kind

From time to time I get the urge to read the classics. In the spring of 2019, in a matter of weeks, I read the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid, all…

Dec 13, 2023 •

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