A former colleague was driving in Banff, Alberta, looking for a restaurant, when he came to an intersection that spoke to him. Just as it would to most every Baby Boomer who grew up watching Jay Ward Productions on television. The colleague sent the photo to several members of his age cohort, and the cracking […]
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Where Bullwinkle and Rocky Meet
May 13th, 2017 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
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Hey, Wait! My Favorite Hockey Team Is in the Conference Finals
May 10th, 2017 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I follow ice hockey in fits and starts. It is difficult to keep track of the sport on this side of the Atlantic; it’s not like it’s background buzz in generic sports news, over here. Also, at my last job, “hockey”, without a modifier, was assumed to be field hockey. No. Really. (India used to […]
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Unglamorous Southwark: The Gate to London Attractions
May 6th, 2017 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Pretty sure that when I heard about central London south of the River Thames, say, 30 years ago … it was largely dismissed as a crime-ridden area with nothing to see. No need to go. Terra Incognito, down there. Even the locals seemed to ignore it, although the area has been part of London for […]
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Day 3 of Our Camino: If It Doesn’t Hurt, You’re Not Doing It Right
April 10th, 2017 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Pain. Did we mention that, the pain? Traveling the Camino de Santiago as a pilgrim is often not a pleasurable experience, in the physical sense. Heat, cold, rain, difficult terrain, average daily hikes of 26 kilometers (16 miles) — for the whole of a month, if you follow the popular route from the France-Spain border […]
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Inland Empire Beauty: Just Add Water
January 25th, 2017 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
We are spending some time in Southern California, slipping in and out of the Inland Empire — that oft-maligned territory between the mountains and the sea. Often hot and smoggy, is the IE. Crisscrossed by clotted freeways burdened by folks who insist on owning a home where they can afford it and commuting to work. […]
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A Kid and His Licorice Stick
January 3rd, 2017 · No Comments · Uncategorized
It took me a long time to realize the clarinet is one of the nastiest instruments in the composer’s toolbox. And for most of that time, I was playing the clarinet. Started in fourth grade, played through 12th grade. That’s nine years of honking and blarting, interrupted only by the occasional ear-piercing squeak. What was […]
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What Men Really Want
December 26th, 2016 · No Comments · Uncategorized
A pressure washer. That is what men really want. I know what you’re thinking. “Darn. And with Christmas behind us now.” You could have gotten your father, brother, son a pressure washer. A German company that happens to make pressure washers commissioned a marketing and research firm to get to the bottom of this — […]
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Modern Nativity = A Very Hipster Christmas
December 3rd, 2016 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Pretty much had to happen. Someone is selling a hipster nativity scene. Have a look. For $129.99 a San Diego-based company named Modern Nativity will sell you their take on a hipster update of the birth of Jesus. It has gotten Modern Nativity a lot of attention in the media. Including the San Diego Union […]
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A Fight Song Is Silenced
November 29th, 2016 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
When people say “you can’t go back” … they generally mean it in a philosophical way. We can’t replay the past, what’s done is done, and so forth. For me, in ways perhaps not particularly typical, “you can’t go back” has turned out to be literal. I can’t go back to my grade school because […]
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Individual Recollections of 9/11
September 11th, 2016 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Where were you on Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001? That probably was a common question, the first few years after the terror attacks of 9/11 that led to four hijacked planes crashed, the destruction of the Twin Towers in New York’s World Trade Center and nearly 2,700 dead. Most Americans over the age of 30 […]
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