Summer greetings! As a Los Angeles area resident for more than 30 years now, I’ve seen lots of changes here in that time! But of all the vibrant SoCal neighborhoods I’ve lived and played in, each with a character all its own, there’s one I hadn’t gotten around to visiting – even though I’ve always […]
“Mineral or tap?” It’s a common restaurant water query. Or how about – “Sparkling or still?” I’ve heard that variation, especially while traveling in England. And over in Italy, I learned to respond with “Acqua naturale” – because I prefer my personality to be more bubbly than my H2O! Until I took a few overseas […]
Greetings! Or perhaps a smart salute! Although it feels like I’m double-time marching toward summer, I wasn’t quite ready after last month’s post to leave behind the rolling, frozen-in-Civil-War-time hills of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. I didn’t get around to listing a few more of the ways a person can enter into the experience of this country-defining […]
Spring-y greetings! So on a recent, quick and altogether fantastic visit to Manhattan, my travel companions picked this restaurant called Keens Steakhouse for one of our nights out. Not knowing anything about it (and having high cholesterol…), I can’t say I was especially “keen” to go – But the dinner turned out to be a […]
Man, I’m so glad I got to take a trip back East last summer! I mean, beyond being all kinds of fun, it cleared up some questions I’d had about that side of the country! Like after inhaling a Connecticut lobster roll, I now know what the fuss over those butter-laden bad boys is all […]
“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story…” So begins Homer’s epic, The Odyssey. It also begins my own journey through those New Year’s Resolutions I nattered about last month – including to ramp up my reading! The Odyssey seems a fine start. It’s UC Berkeley’s online book club offering ahead of the […]
A very Happy New Year to you!!! So after a truly delightful and busy holiday season, I’ve been doing my usual meditating (as opposed to actually doing anything) on the subject of New Year’s Resolutions. I reviewed my 2025 successes and failures, quizzed friends, and did some online research – In the end though, the […]
Seasons Greetings! Can’t believe it’s time again to close out the year with my traditional haphazard poem! It’s an account of as many events as I can fit in (and with all their feels…), meant to be read in the style of ’Twas the Night Before Christmas. So, no more prose – here it goes! […]
Okay so sort of by accident, I’ve been learning more about “mindfulness” lately! (Although with a World Series Game starting shortly, it’s hard to be entirely “in the moment” just now…) While I can sure use the education, it’s been coming in forms I definitely didn’t expect! I mean, bathing-wise, I’ve always been a practitioner […]
Happy Official Autumn! So every time I aim to close out the year strongly by focussing on professional matters, my thoughts drift off to the lazy days of summer (the active ones, too!) when I got to indulge in some of my very favorite pastimes… For one, I fed my love of history! I got […]
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