by me | Feb 4, 2013 | current non-events, Family, Home, Humor, writing
It is unnerving to see how much paper has accumulated in the filing cabinets in this house. Note that I didn’t say I had accumulated the paper but the paper has accumulated. Paper makes me passive. Or feel passive. Or passive-aggressive. Sure don’t want to...
by me | Jan 23, 2013 | current events, current non-events, Family, food, Home, Richmond VA
I wish I could show you what I’d like to show you on this auspicious occasion, but I can’t. Can’t even tell you why I can’t. It’s that crucial to the future of pie in Richmond. I will say that unless it’s a graham cracker crumb...
by me | Jan 1, 2013 | business, current events, Environment, Home, Humor, Outdoors, writing
Would that I had my ducks in a row on this first day of 2013. Came upon something I wrote in early Jan. 2002 bemoaning the lack of organization in these parts and our manic undertakings to improve this that and the other. Ducks have two advantages that we...
by me | Nov 21, 2012 | current non-events, Home, Humor
Is my favorite birthday joke and so appropriate this year on so many levels. It was an all-stool birthday this year. First I practiced the local love that I preach on our food tours and post-tour one pre-birthday Saturday went to one of my favorite stores, La...
by me | Oct 29, 2012 | current events, Environment, Family, Home, Humor, Outdoors
Rock, Paper, Scissors has never been my favorite game. I think right about now, with Sandy en route, I’d prefer the choice of Stone, Plywood, Drill Driver.
by me | Sep 20, 2012 | current non-events, Family, Home, Humor, writing
Not to over-anaylze it–squiggly, wiry, metallic and free-form. Note the juxtapositions. (There are always juxtapositions.) Is it an Alexander Calder mobile rip-off? A caricature done in coat hangers with a nod to irony? Symbolic of Virginia hanging onto...
