Category Archives: Looking ahead

Traveling Back

Hopkinton High School, class of 1960 – 71 students.  Class reunions are not always eagerly attended.  Not all high school experiences are friendly and some folks have a hard time relaxing and understanding that their classmates, after 25 years, really … Continue reading

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Oh My Gourd

Last year, to show our harvest time and Halloween spirit, we bought a fat orange pumpkin to decorate our little yard.  It gradually decomposed and was covered with autumn leaves and later more than a few inches of winter snow.  … Continue reading

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Granola Park

Every day Asheville has a couple of dozen entertainment events and hundreds of other cultural, arts, crafts, spiritual, gastronomic and marketing affairs as well.  Chronicling all this and reporting important regional news for locals and visitors is the popular – … Continue reading

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Summer Begins with Gags and Cocktails

Summer, 2010.  My favorite season – warm sunny days and cool evenings, and as SAM says, “the weird things in my head.”  Thoughts of summers past and the one ahead. Memorial Day for the past twelve years has meant a … Continue reading

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Southern California, CDS and Sculpture

The Mommas and Papas lyrics for “It Never Rains…” were playin’ in our heads as we pulled on our sweaters and grabbed our umbrellas for springtime in Huntington Beach, CA.  The weather was unseasonably cool and rainy, but it was … Continue reading

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Making Sausage?

Rant. Watching the final house debate on the health care reform legislation was for me, encouraging in the final outcome, but revolting with respect to the process. Maybe it’s to be expected. Our representatives largely represent the special interests that … Continue reading

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Dirty Snow, Seafood and Orca’s

Those in the northeast US are understandably tired of winter and the snow storms.  SAM and I arrived to find the remains of snowzilla – the 3rd megablizzard this year – now just dirty snow piled in parking lots.  It’s … Continue reading

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Painting

Many of my pals, including my best friend and partner SAM, enjoy painting.  They buy supplies and books and videos.  They attend classes and workshops to develop their skills and deepen their understanding of how to paint well. Some painters … Continue reading

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Snow Moon

For more than 170 years, folks much smarter than me have stood before Thomas Cole’s five “Course of Empire“ paintings and been struck by his painting genius and their provocative message.  For most of that time they have hung in … Continue reading

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PST

    Here on the other coast (Pacific) football games are played three hours earlier PST, but the scores are the same – I checked.  We’re visiting with SAM’s daughter Stacey and spouse Mark and their new daughter Chelsea.  It’s … Continue reading

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