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June 6, 2013 — The start of a reclamation, perhaps?
A very interesting story came across the wire in Great Britain today, thanks to The Guardian. Given the permanence of information in the digital age, some of which has been used to catch sexual...
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June 9, 2013 — The Red Book, Part 12
One in a series. Hi, all. This virtual “red book” wasn’t supposed to go longer than 11 weeks, but there’s a lot more to say. Since the reunion concluded a week ago, it has been a hard task processing...
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June 16, 2013 — The Red Book, Part 13
Last in a series. A person I truly respect as an artist and visionary asked a simple question a month ago on social media: “What did you learn from Harvard?” To end my my overlong virtual Red Book...
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July 4, 2013 — A new twist on a sacred document
For a quarter-century, National Public Radio has broadcast a spoken-word version of the Declaration of Independence, using its reporters, hosts, and contributors. This year, the voices of 33 ordinary...
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July 15, 2013 — The pin-drop
I remember April 29, 1992 vividly. I was in the middle of the newsroom at our daily newspaper when the television in the corner was on, and our managing editor had turned up the volume. That was...
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Aug. 6, 2013 — A resurrection
CHUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!! With a few pinches of plastic plugs and the tightening of a machine screw, this noise came out from the speakers of an Apple Quadra 660 AV yesterday. I know what some of you...
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Aug. 12, 2013 — Rolling with it, no matter what
Ten years after I graduated from Harvard, I ran into one of my classmates at the reunion. The classmate was someone I knew as female. Only the “she” I had gotten to know had, through surgery and...
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Sept. 2, 2013 — Reflections on 15 years
“After many fits and starts, we’re finally up.” With that sentence 15 years ago this month, TopOfTheCircle.com was born. Hence, the logo that we’ve posted in the header. It has gone from a features...
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Sept. 3, 2013 — Villanelle for a passing
Seamus Heaney died last week. I was privileged to live near him in one of the dorms at Harvard. We occasionally ate together. He wrote this for the 350th anniversary of Harvard. Villanelle for an...
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Oct. 3, 2013 — A workhorse and an appliance
Today’s Games of the Day Cicero-North Syracuse (N.Y.) at Liverpool (N.Y.) These two high schools are located about four miles apart on a stretch of land between Lake Oneida and Lake Onondaga, just...
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Oct. 13, 2013 — Barely an eyebrow
While news has been focusing on the U.S. government shutdown, celebrity divorces, and a sports soap opera involving an injury, an event occurred last week in Hawaii that ordinarily might have been a...
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Nov. 11, 2013 — A new look, (hopefully) same as the old look
You may have noticed a slight change in this site over the last three days. If you didn’t, that’s all the better. That’s because late last week, I had received an email from the company that had hosted...
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Nov. 28, 2013 — A week of thanksgivings
Today, I sit down with family members for Thanksgiving dinner and the usual traditions: a football game (or three), turkey, a rich dessert, and conversation. For me, however, Thanksgiving began last...
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Dec. 8, 2013 — Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013
Like President Obama, the first genuinely political action in which your Founder ever participated was a protest against apartheid. This was in the mid-1980s, when it was pretty indefensible for any...
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Dec. 9, 2013 — A pad vs. a tablet
This morning, as I was getting dressed, I spied a black case on the couch. It was about four inches wide by 10 inches long. These days, whenever I see a travel wallet like this, I snap it up quickly....
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Dec. 18, 2013 — Back in time
Today, I’ve done something that I haven’t done in a long while: pen a hand-written note on an actual blank notecard without a pre-printed message to act as a crutch. Like a blank crossword in which you...
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Dec. 26, 2013 — A revisitation
The day my father and I went to the local Social Security office to register the fact that my mother had died, we went for ice cream in a small independent store nearby. The shop, little bigger than...
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Jan. 11, 2013 — Video wipeout
This afternoon came a confirmation that I didn’t want to hear. My new computer wiped out my old video projects, including a pair of “in development” stories that I was hoping to do in the offseason....
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Jan. 19, 2014 — In search of good coffee
I fired my coffeemaker today. I had received it as a Christmas gift; it was one of those kinds of machines that makes a single cup from a packet of ground coffee, rather than making a pot at a time and...
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Jan. 25, 2014 — The randomness of life and death
It was two weeks ago when a visit to my local computer store confirmed the fact that my raw video is all but unrecoverable. Today, the building in which that store was located was a crime scene. With...
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