Yummy Rhymes With Dummy

Since I haven’t had the opportunity to do much worth noting, such as saving any wildlife in distress this week (not counting three ants in my office that — yes, don’t laugh — I actually caught up and transported down to a planter in the building’s courtyard), here’s a post in which  I go with …

First Look: Our Sliiiiiither Lake Spooky Yard

Happy Halloweek! In between my regular weekend chores, No. 1 Alabama baaaaarely holding on to beat Tennessee, and an ongoing mental cage match that pitted my flyweight creativity against some heavyweight procrastinatory frustrations battling it out as I tried to write a spooky tale to tell Sunday night at a storytelling event I’d been invited …

Springtime In Fall

(click image for the bigger picture) A couple days of rains last week followed by some dewy mornings giving way to warm afternoons have startled the grasses from their seasonal subsoil slumber and sent them shooting up at the skies and sun so that they now blanket sections of the previously barren backyard a brilliant …

Tendering Kindness

In the aftermath of Tuesday’s gull encounter and the amazing reaction it subsequently generated both here and at the post I made about it over at LA Metblogs, I just need to say how deeply moved I am by the outpouring of kind words and appreciation. That things played out as they did — and …

Unhooked! Or How I Greatly Improved And Perhaps Even Saved A Gull’s Life Today

UPDATED (November 28, 2020): So eleven full years after this encounter, something extraordinary has happened concerning the videos I posted about it over on YouTube. Seemingly out of nowhere those clips that I hung up over at my quiet little YouTube channel have for reasons beyond my understanding suddenly found their way onto the screens …

If This Wall Could Talk

I had my biannual visit to the dentist this morning, his Miracle Mile office of which is conveniently located only a couple blocks from a freshly installed exhibit featuring sections of the Berlin Wall and commemorating the 20th anniversary of its fall. So of course afterwards I deviated from my normal home-dentist-work route to go …