I have thoroughly enjoyed seeing my nephews grow up a little bit at a time in their school activities. When my sister’s eldest was in school, he was in drama for a while, and it was great to see him on stage, growing from a kid to a young adult. In the last few...
Read more →I was grateful tonight to go out and walk with my sister on the trails in the foothills at the east end of Spain Road. By the time we were a decent distance from the access parking lot, the sunset to the west was fading, and shadows were melding with the charcoal luminescence of...
Read more →This morning at work, to quell the mood of a Monday, I put my earphones on and fired up Pandora to listen to my Dave Koz station. And for a moment, I was back in Marin County. I was in a cool fall evening, in a moment when the sky was a deepening purple...
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I was able to finish David Ross’s memoir “Teammate” today, which was a nice treat on a quiet Sunday morning. After sleeping in a little while early after what felt like a long week, I put on some slippers and after I made some coffee, sat in the sunlight on the back porch and...
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I awoke early this morning having considered last night taking a drive up to the Valle Caldera to check on the trees, but at 6AM, that particular urge left me. I went back to bed and enjoyed another hour and a half of needed sleep. The morning passed in gross misappropriation. By 1, I...
Read more →It’s 11:30 PM, and I am back at it. The TV is on to ESPN 2- the Lobo football team, after a blowout loss to Fresno State last weekend (38-0), is hanging around, trying to catch Colorado State. It’s late in the 4th, and CSU just went up ten on a field goal kick....
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It’s the middle of the fourth inning in game five of the series between the Cubs and the Dodgers. It’s a game where, if the Cubs won, they would prolong their season another day, and where if the Dodgers won, they would be heading to the 2017 World Series. It’s 9-0 Los Angeles right...
Read more →Tonight I boycotted a Lobo men’s soccer match against UCLA after work to sit through what might have been the final game of the season for the Cubs. I felt it was my duty to watch the game, despite the fact the Cubs were down 3-0 in a 4 game series to the Dodgers....
Read more →You drew the plan and chose the lot and leveled the earth and tore out the trees and laid the slab and placed the pipes and raised the walls and spaced the windows and mulled the materials and set the roof and attached the shingles and picked each door and painted each room and...
Read more →Love doesn’t always give us what we want. It flies from what we wish, what we dream, these radiant visions, and lifts our hopes for the right, the strong, the good, so when the painted picture dries, and perfection stares back at us, in brilliant hues, we see truth, and promise, and clarity. Passion...
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I wanted to see some fall colors, so I decided to drive out to the Jemez northwest of Albuquerque today. My drive dropped me first at Perea Nature Trail, a hidden attraction at the corner of 550 and the turnoff to San Ysidiro and the Jemez Valley. The trail offered a nice walk through...
Read more →It took me 15 minutes to decide to drive over. Once I was in the lot in front of the bar, it took me another 15 minutes to work up the nerve to go in. I don’t know why. These are people I went to high school with, old classmates. These are people I’ve...
Read more →Tonight was game 5 between the Washington Nationals and the Chicago Cubs for the National League Division Championship. The winner would go on to play the Dodgers in the NL Championship Series. I was ready to watch it at 6 PM. I was still watching it at 10:30, chewing my nails and covering my...
Read more →It is late- 20 minutes until midnight, when this blog turns into a pumpkin. It’ll just be basics today. Ben Lolli, my Chicago marathon rabbit, is coming through town this weekend and staying for a few days. As a result, I had to do some cleaning tonight. Cleaning is not my forté, but I...
Read more →I don’t have anything special tonight, so I thought I’d just pass on an article by an old friend who is on the radio in Seattle these days. We’re different people now, Don and I. We knew each other in high school, during a year when he was getting ready to leave Eldorado, and...
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