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 10, 2012 | business, city living, current events, food, Humor, Quirky Richmond, REAL RICHMOND, Richmond Architecture, Richmond VA, Travel, writing
and here is some of what I thought of it from an online piece for Richmond Magazine: Lincoln Premieres in RVA I’ll tell you more if you come on our Lincoln Legs: Brunch & Brushes with History tour tomorrow, Nov. 11th at 12:30 and we’ll brunch at...
by me | Oct 11, 2012 | city living, current events, food, Humor, Outdoors, Richmond VA, Travel, writing
Maybe it was the Luna Bar breakfast or the realization that for the next 8 hours all I would eat was trail mix, gummy bears and Famous Amos cookies and a banana, but I had food on the brain while my butt was on a bike as I was riding the 102 mile inaugural Tour of...
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...
by me | Aug 29, 2012 | Family, Humor, writing
If you read Dear Abby even rarely, you’ve come across a Pennies from Heaven anecdote. Somebody dies. Somebody who misses the dead person lives and finds a penny. Maybe the penny is from the year of the dead person’s birth, death or wedding–first...
by me | Jul 19, 2012 | business, current events, Humor, REAL RICHMOND, Travel, writing
Just glanced at a list I made for a recent trip: checkbooks legal pad of joy knitting That pretty much sums it up except I forgot the checkbooks, I knit perhaps 3 rows the entire weekend and the legal pad had a few more worry lines added to it. Par for the course....
