Hello!

David Walbert is a writer, historian, educator, web designer, erstwhile physicist, sometime duck rancher, and former world champion tiddlywinks player. He lives with his wife, daughter, and a vast collection of cookbooks in Durham, North Carolina. No, really.

Amuse-bouche.

mascot at Washington Nationals Park

Now I like Teddy Roosevelt as much as the next guy, but this is maybe a little creepy.

crocus

Somewhere, baseball is being played.

cement face with a crewcut of snow

Just a little off the top, not too short over the ears.

Everett

I do not like this… this what did you call it, this snow? No sir. Not at all. My private bits are only six inches off the ground as it is. Please make it go away. Thank you sir.

Leftovers

Pie has left the building.

Morsels lately composed.

What’s really in the molasses?

Kitchen science and chemical leaveners

Pretty good banana bread

A catalog of my neighbors (non-human, partial)

Curiosity and the citizen historian

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