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Concert Review: Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen at The Mint, west Los Angeles, 9-14-2013

Live music is one of my favorite things about being alive. It can be such a pain: scrambling for tickets, driving to the venue, finding parking, waiting around, basketball teams positioning themselves in front of me. But then, when the music is good enough, none of that matters. Actually, the show I attended last weekend […]

More Words about Murder and Brains

With relief, enthusiasm, and sheepishness, I announce that more chapters are now on-line in my serialization of  ?Was It A Rat I Saw?, my psychological thriller involving real-life split brain research, animal rights, and a love quadrangle. I’m making progress – a mere 70 hardcover pages left to re-type! – but am way behind my original self-imposed […]

A Meal That is Good For My Diet

Now that Mom is 89, her lifelong interest in cooking has become sporadic. This does not, however, explain the dish she had waiting in a rice bowl. The Weekly Photo Challenge wants to see “Inside”.

Bag, Box, and Clubhouse

Warning: If you hate cute cat pix, stop reading now before you ruin your day. Like all cats, the five in my household like to go inside stuff. It is the moments like these that persuade me to forgive them during times like these. Here are Bop and Luna in a deep bag: The kittens […]

If You Speak Spanish And You Survived, This Sign’s For You

When you enter Mandalay Beach in Oxnard, California you see a sobering sign: Now, millions of folks in California speak Spanish – and quite a few of them speak Spanish, only. Recognizing the need for a sign in Spanish, attached to the back of this sign is the same warning, translated to Spanish: Just one […]

Water Lines

When away from Oroville Dam in northern California, I can resent its intrusive existence and its destruction of the Feather River. Yet when I visit and walk across the dam, I see the beauty that remains. Currently, the reservoir is low on water, which exposes  patterns that disappear when submerged. The current Weekly Photo Challenge […]

My Birthday Week (I’m Milking It!)

If I must acknowledge getting older, then I prefer to have my birthday celebration spread out over days. This year I’ve got a birthday week – and if I count the concert with a friend in November, I’ve got a birthday season! Highlights this year are two dawn hikes (my first hikes with my new […]

Cold But Refreshing: Stop Motion Time Lapse

It was cloudy and chilly today at Mandalay Beach in Oxnard, California: Nonetheless, I went in the water: The current Weekly Photo Challenge wants photos from an unusual perspective.)

My Personal Space Telescope

On my recent walk across Oroville dam in northern California, clouds moved rapidly across the sun – all these photos were taken during just a few, rapidly evolving minutes – and created a spectacular scene that looked like star nebula photographed by the Hubble. The current Weekly Photo Challenge wants photos from an unusual perspective.)

Book Review: “Dark Tide” by Elizabeth Haynes

3 STARS The staid and wild sides of a woman’s life collide when a body washes up on her newly purchased houseboat. I loved the first half of this book – for a while it was so hard to put down, I feared that I had derailed my life by picking it up – but […]