One of my favorite things to do is to make breakfast on Sunday mornings. I used to like to go out for breakfast, and truthfully, I still do enjoy it... but I am a good enough cook that I've gotten kinda picky about the food I get in restaurants, and greasy hash browns and rubbery […]
I was at the grocery store just a bit ago, and the woman ahead of me had a very interesting set of items: 20 Mothers Day cards 1 bottle of Tums I suppose if you need 20 Mothers Day cards, it is a good bet you need Tums.
Somehow, I think this is backwards. I know some very capable people. I also know some pretty broken people - addicts and alcoholics... In a lot of respects, those two groups are almost completely mutually exclusive. Among my group of capable people - and by capable, I mean people who are totally able to take […]
I was commenting on someone's blog, and came up with this pearl of (depressing) wisdom: "Nostalgia is just a stop on the road to disappointment."
Consider these scenarios: It is Sunday afternoon. Too late for lunch, too early for dinner. You've just finished watching your favorite football team win. The weather outside is terrible. It is the middle of the night. You wake up. You go to the bathroom. You lie back down, but you can't get to sleep. You're […]
It is Saturday morning, and my usual Saturday ritual is without direction. My partner and I have made it a habit to take off on most Saturday mornings to get breakfast somewhere. For a long time, we went to a place in midtown, where we found good food and a very friendly server, who was […]
I was just reading an article in The Washington Post about a bird, the bar-tailed godwit, that migrated nonstop from Alaska to New Zealand. It is a fascinating story... But I got distracted. What kind of a name is 'godwit'? Definitely not a 'Merican name. If an American had named it, it would have been […]
I don't have kids. I never wanted kids. Actually, I did once. But I laid down, and the feeling went away. My partner has kids. They're really kids in adults clothing. One of the kids has kids. The kid's kid spent the weekend with us. So, it was off to the store. To get food […]
Today was a very distracting day... my mind was elsewhere... and it got me in trouble... twice. I was at the local burrito place, and after lunch I felt the need to return some of the iced tea I had for lunch. I had my sunglasses on... and the restaurant was crowded. I walked into […]