Mile High Pod Chronicles

Profile of a venerable Boston Unitarian-Universalist church, with scenes during yesterday's Christmas carols and readings service, and an interview with a member who met her wife at the church.

Excerpt from Sen. Barack Obama's remarks at a book signing in Portsmouth, NH, on December 10, 2006, the day of his first-ever visit to the state with the first presidential primary. A cameo appearance by "Campaign" Carl Cameron of FOX News.

It was a year ago today that I first uploaded an audio file to the internet at the Blogs n Dogs conference in Banff. Since then I've learned that podcasting is challenging, expensive, scary, and immensely rewarding. Some thoughts on where I've been and where I'd like to go as a podcaster, taped at my parents' home in Cambridge, Mass.

A brief interview with Robert D. Richardson, author of William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism, at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass.

My parents host my grandson James for an Admiration Society session in their kitchen in Cambridge, Mass.

Groggy blogger wheeled to recovery room for talk with the doc, and a wobbly walk to the car for the ride home. Done!

In which we travel to the surgical center, get prepped for the procedure, visit with the doctor, and receive medication which made me forget everything he did, even though I was awake all the way through it. Weird.

On the day before my scheduled colonoscopy, the water is out in our building. Not a good development. Does everything come out all right?

My Zen teacher, Danan Henry Roshi, spiritual director of the Zen Center of Denver, spoke with me this morning about what Zen practice means for the upcoming holidays. The Center's web site is www.zencenterofdenver.org

On the third day of our cross-country drive, we got tired and gnarly, but still made it it Omaha and a day of rest at Rod and Connie's.

My wife and I explore the woods of Wompatuck State Park in Hingham, Massachusetts as our 7-week Fall Foliage RV Ramble enters its final week.

Our friend Tom from Wyoming and his wife Tish bring Tom's 93-year-old mother on an RV trek to New England, where they join us on our Fall Foliage RV Ramble for a week.

This has to be one of the best ways to see the fall foliage in New England--a two-and-a-half-hour cruise on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire aboard historic motorship Mount Washington.

A beautifully written book where strange things happen and the reader has a chance to return to life changed.

We visit Polly's Pancake Parlor in Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, where the same family has been perfecting how to make pancakes since 1938. These interviews tell how they've pretty much gotten it right and don't plan to change it.