What a crazy busy wonderful last coupla days. If there’s ever been a 48-hour period where I’ve bitten off more than I could chew but still managed to swallow it all without choking, this was it. It all started Friday night coming home from work with an intensive trip to the market to procure all …
A couple months ago my good friend and cyclist-about-town Stephen, was returning home veeery early in the morning from a group night bike ride that then went even later seguing into a party for a friend of his. In getting back to Echo Park he opted to take a route from 4th Street that brought …
I haven’t done much in the way of sunflower patch updates or pix recently because, well… as we know all good things must come to an end, and the last week or so has seen our sunflower beauties fading as they come to the various ends of their days. Right now there are several of …
There are encounters I don’t tell you about because there is nothing much to tell. Dogs I come across that I attempt to help who’ll have nothing of it. There were two of those Tuesday that I didn’t share because it was just the heartbreak of two old dirty haggard animals that don’t give a …
I don’t do a lot of meal making in the kitchen that involves preparations beyond seasoning something and putting it to some manner of heat. I think the most complicated thing I’ve ever made is cookies or cakes. Or daiquiris the way Hemingway drank ’em in Cuba. This weekend though, thanks to a unique and …
Pumpkin says “And a fine day to you! I will take breakfast in the nook this morning thankew pleez.”
Before suddenly retiring from motorcycles 15 years ago last month, the helmet that saved my life featured a little slogan I’d stenciled onto its back in bright orange letters that read: HELMETS ARE SMART HELMET LAWS AREN’T To put that phrase in context, it was my indignant/snarky way of expressing my displeasure with the “Government …