When I don’t have much time I loop in and out of the streets in my neighborhood, running with my dog Roger. Much to my surprise during one of those runs I saw two ducks waddling down the sidewalk on Kelton Ave. It was very strange because Kelton Ave. is perpendicular to Olympic and [...]

so i’m struggling with or should i say drowning in stuff. i must liquidate for the move and i can’t decide what to sell and what to simply donate. i don’t know if i have the patience to sell my stuff and if it is even worth my time. if my sister or daughters were [...]

I need to settle down….I’ve just walked into the Florida Drivers license hovel where am treated like an inmate at San Quentin. This greeter has got to hate his job, but denied it when I asked him. I’m only here because Florida initially issued me a drivers license that was good for 15 years….can you [...]

I was looking forward to the opening of the new Dali museum. I thought it would be one of the few interesting things that we could do when my sister visited. Likewise for my daughter and her boyfriend from San Jose.
I hated it. Sooo…. a few reasons why.
1. First and foremost are the men in [...]

I’m trying not to let the towjob forever ruin my memory of Runyon Canyon. Not gonna happen. Later today I’m going to drive back and get a second look at the parking sign. The sign that says I can’t park there. The parking spot among other parked cars on Hollywood Blvd near Fuller. It seemed [...]

A quote from the book by Joshua Foer. It’s something I already know. But I think it’s a great reminder. Stir things up…explore.
“Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and [...]

I basically forgot about Valentine’s Day until we went out to eat this evening and couldn’t figure out why it was so damn crowded on a sunday night. Then I looked around. I saw lots of women all dressed up. Along with them were their significant(?) others…..looking…well…insignificant.
I thought about V day silently to myself. Many [...]

What’s to know about the young man that fired the semi-automatic weapon in Tucson? Who cares. It simply doesn’t matter to me. We live in a gun crazy society where anybody can get a gun and shoot it indiscriminately. Why? Simply put, guns kill. We don’t have to know why. Shouldn’t we ask..why so easy? [...]

Last month I had a squamous cell carcinoma removed from my leg. Since then my zeal for cycling has been dampened, to say the least. I’m sort of mad at cycling. Mad at the sun, and as always mad at Florida. Right now I’m looking outside. I see the sun shining through the clouds. I’m [...]

Lately I’ve been reading a bit about the war in Afghanistan, specifically Ghost Wars by Steve Coll. I find it incredibly frustrating to even think about. My simplistic view is this:
We are spending $57,000 per minute in Afghanistan.
We are cutting funding for healthcare, education and basic “social security” and quality of life things for [...]