Apr
21
My grandmother turns 99 and Earth Day turns 35.
I snapped these daffodils (or “jonquils” as my mother calls them) growing in our garden to honor them both.
Apr
03
Jonathan Banks plays Mike Ehrmantraut to Bob Odenkirk’s Jimmy McGill.
Anyone else watching Better Call Saul?
The spinoff from Breaking Bad is sort of a prequel to all the hullabaloo surrounding Walter White and his shenanigans as he broke from being good to being very, very bad. Except he’s not in this at all.
Yet.
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Sometimes you just gotta blow this popsicle stand and head south. Click the link below for my own flight of the bumblebees (emphasis on “bumble.”)
From Tundra to Tampa
Mar
02
Jeff Bridges, left, played the Big Lebowski. Charles Bukowski, right, played Charles Bukowski.
I just want to say at the outset, that I’m not always as smart as I like to think I am. This surely comes as a shock to virtually no one, not the least of whom me. Heck, I don’t even know if I constructed that previous sentence smartly.
But what I do know is that up until today, I confused Charles Bukowski with The Big Lebowski.
Mar
01
Can you guess which of the eggs in my fridge are more of the “hard boiled” sort?
Maybe it’s just my imagination (game), but it seems like more movies made news this year than in most previous years. It might just be the zaniness surrounding The Interview or the controversies about American Sniper that grabbed a lot of the headlines recently. But I think it’s because so many of the notable films were based on real-life people or events.
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Feb
18
Richard Bach is my all-time favorite author. (Tom Robbins is a close second.)
When I was down in Florida recently — escaping a winter of discontent for a week — I snapped a few photos that reminded me of Richard Bach’s writing.
Feb
13
Time was, we were the only ones on the block recycling. Now in 2015, most of our neighbors drag their recycling out to the curb. Multicolored bins line our street like giant Pez candies.
We’ve noticed since our girls left the house, that we generally only have a small bag of trashy garbage and two large bins of recyclables. That’s a lot of television time.
What?
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