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Grow, Grow

I’m not any kind of accomplished gardener. I let things grow too much. Sometimes I learn about some plant’s light or heat requirements by messing it up and eventually plopping it into the green can, destined to become mulch or … Continue reading

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Happy 250th, Big Boy

As I write these words I’m listening to a collection of Beethoven overtures performed in 1991 by Claudio Abbado and the Vienna Philharmonic, gorgeously recorded and simply glowing with the radiance that the Philharmonic emits with such abundance. In some … Continue reading

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Big Road, Little Car

A month after acquiring a zippy, cute, and altogether charming Soul Red Crystal Metallic Mazda Miata MX-5 that I’ve named Mickey, I have become a lot more acquainted with our East County backroads, sideroads, and country roads. After all, what’s … Continue reading

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Suburban Housewives? Huh? Where?

I just don’t grok certain statements by our current President regarding American suburbia. To hear him talk you’d think that it’s all Mayfield, where the Cleavers raised Wally and Beaver on Mapleton Drive, where everybody has a stay-at-home Mom who … Continue reading

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Soul Red Crystal Metallic

It has been observed that the regular driving of a sports car can provide a boost to one’s emotional well-being. I’ll grant that a study backing up that observation was funded by a company that just happens to make several … Continue reading

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Five Years Down

Optimist: a 61-year-old man who takes out a 30-year mortgage. That’s me. Five years ago I signed on the dotted line (many, many dotted lines) and took possession of a goodly-sized house in Far Outerburbia, well away from San Francisco’s … Continue reading

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Online

Nobody used to have much of a handle on distance learning. Oh, it was around, mostly by way of online courses that served for various credentialing programs or training for office skills. While some of the institutions were worthy and … Continue reading

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Come to the Garden

A recent post, available here, was devoted to the joys and comforts of housekeeping. A followup is in order, this time on the subject of gardening, a dialect of housekeeping that dwells in its own separate bailiwick. A disclaimer: I’m … Continue reading

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At Home

“This sense of being at home is important to everyone’s well-being. If you do not get enough of it, your happiness, resilience, energy, humor, and courage will decrease. It is a complex thing, an amalgam. In part, it is a … Continue reading

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Illogical and Irrational Lines

An article in the SF Chronicle regarding restaurants judged as worthy of waiting in line for has set me off. In my opinion, no restaurant is worth waiting in line for. It can’t be innovative enough or cheap enough or … Continue reading

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