DavidsJournal

My wife says I am nicer to Alexa than I am to her. Maybe. After all, if I ask Alexa to remind me to do something she doesn’t say, “You could write yourself a note.” When I tell her to add something to the shopping list, she just says, “Added.” She doesn’t ask me why…

In 1999 we adopted a dog with a name tag that read “Arrow.” We liked the name and loved the dog, who’d been rescued from a shelter by a friend on his very last day (an extra one he’d been given past his scheduled “due date”) of life. She couldn’t keep the dog because she…

I learned to play chess when I was eight. My uncle, have just returned from a POW camp in China at the end of The Korean War, taught me. I think he learned to play in the prison camp. He once said someone had carved a complete chess set from scrap wood. He didn’t say…