Today I taught my last Writing about Film class. Then I came home and took Bogie for a ramble in the woods near our soon-to-be house in the South Hill area of Ithaca. Beautiful neighborhood adjoining Six Mile Creek, which leads you into the Mullholland Wildflower Preserve. Sounds Los Angelenan (can this be a word?) but it's as East Coast as can be: deciduous trees, downed leaves, granite gorge. The East Coast, the Old Coast. It's good to get outside once in a while. And so I say goodbye for today to the virtual world.

I used to ramble in the park
Shadowboxing in the dark
Then you came and lit the spark
That's a four-alarm fire now!