Christmas really hogs some of the best holiday-associated music. Which is good, as that eases some of the stress of the season.  But what about Thanksgiving? It has always been one of my favorite holidays.  Maybe because I was always a sous chef, and not responsible for the whole show as… Read full post »

Dateline: November 19, 2009

 

A tragic accident took place tonight, which we know was dark and stormy. According to eye-witness accounts an underslept Nanowrimo author’s plot truck   momentarily lost traction where Story Road meets the 39K corridor.  The truck skidded out o/… Read full post »

 

      Which shows you where I got the title for this blog post, even though the original author meant to say “woods.” But don’t worry, it’s been permapersimmoned.

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            November 4, 2008 to November 5, 2009.  Coming home after dinner at my father’s house on Election Night last year, I played the choral movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony loud.   I didn’t stop playin/… Read full post »

 

 Age Doesn’t Matter, Anymore 

I died in 1348 of the Black Plague.

You,in the Hundred Years’ War.

I lived in Rome and you in London

We would not have met in life.

 

Isn’t it wonderful that death renders

 life’s barriers vague,

And that our age… Read full post »

      

      

         “There’s fruit for dessert,” my mother would say in a tone of determined cheer  after summer dinners out on our patio while avoiding our eyes. … Read full post »

Loma Prieta

 

 

 

          I don’t remember exactly why I drove home by a different route, that October Tuesday twenty years ago. I only knew for some reason that day I didn’t want to be on El Camino Real during  e… Read full post »

        

 

   It’s coming soon to an aspiring author near you. It’s an unstoppable force.  It started with a small group of people in a room in California eleven years ago, and from there, it has expanded to cover every co/… Read full post »

Me too!

But let's turn our  anger to constructive ends! Follow this link:

www.AmericaCantWait.com

And add your signature to Howard Dean's Petition. Let's let the Senate Finance Committee know in no uncertain terms what we think of their politically craven and greedy vote.

According to Moveon.… Read full post »

   

 

Meet Fuzzy Math

   He's   Kitty's assistant and apprentice in the art of being a political animal in Washington. D.C.  Aptly named, as fuzzy economics will never go out of style in Washington. D. C.

    Until very recently, Fuzz… Read full post »

Also Known as Connie and Melissa go to the Opera

 

Opening nights at the opera are a red carpet, buffet dinner and ice sculpture  San Francisco event complete with valet parking for the city’s deeper-pocketed citizens.    Because of scheduling issues, and my insist/… Read full post »

  

 

Meet Kitty, my cartoon creation dating from the  Presidential campaign of 1992. Kitty sprang into being as a Friend of Bill and  a Friend of Hillary. (No, I didn't much like GWB's papa, either which may shock some of you.) Kitty infiltrated the 1992 GOP … Read full post »

 

     For some the predominant emotion of 9/11 is grief. For me, it's more an alloy of grief but more of anger, full of dross and impurities. If my feelings were a sculpture, there would be a lot of twisty, jagged, smoke blackened metal involved,… Read full post »

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    I suppose this Blog title is misleading, but no, for once I don’t actually mean Darth Dick Cheney.

 

Twilight the series, literally arrived on my fr/… Read full post »

      

      The bride in this photo is my friend Kim Christine Bergman-Warriner standing beside her new husband, Cole Warriner, on their wedding day, August 13, 2005. She was a month short of her 28^th birthday./… Read full post »

 

 Also known as  "The First Annual Julia Child Memorial Bake-off and Love-in."

Today, August 15, 2009, would be Julia  Child's 97th birthday.  To honor the woman I consider the Goddess-Empress of the Kitchen range,  and the Grande-Dame of all TV chefs, I'm… Read full post »

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Darn you, Verbal Remedy, just darn you to heck! I ALMOST had her under control.  Oh, sorry, by "her" I'm referring to my inner Republican Heiress. Not only do I have an evil twin, it turns out she's a cross between Martha Stewart in home decor taste and Paris Hilton in…

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     Or, The Paraphernalia that Comes With It continued. Early in June, I wrote a post about the artistic dilemma of having too many mediums already, each of which required its own outlay of moderate too expensive equipment.  You can read it here: http://open.s… Read full post »

 

 

Dear Marcela,

 

I believe there are as many ways to write as there are writers. All I can do is talk about my own procedure without claiming to speak for anyone else. What I have in common with all other writers though, is the necessity of sitting down and… Read full post »

  

 

Bye-bye, Miss American Pie,

Drove the Chevy to the levy

But the levy was dry....

 

        With the Fourth of July straight ahead, I refer of course, to that ineffable American culinary… Read full post »

 

Hiking

Care to walk me down

the "Appalachian Trail" ?

Hold all my wife's calls!

 

On The Road

You can't Tango  dance  

in  the Carolinas;  Wow, that

Trail  ends way down South!

 

Wide Stance

In Argentina?

Thank God Sanford  did it on

the ro… Read full post »