Just a piano player

So, after watching craigslist cell-phone ads intensely for the past couple of months, I leaped into the unknown two days ago. Here's th...

A friend we've known for MANY years called Saturday morning, to tell us that his (or her) home has been foreclosed, and he (or she) need...

First thing every morning, I run thru my list of Favorite web sites, to make sure that I get my initial dose of correct (i.e. non-GOP) think...

It's great to see that my son has managed to be his own friend. The question remains, how the heck do you do that?

The gaffe about 'Corporations are People' is fascinating, for many reasons. Obviously he didn't mean it in the sense of the Cit...

Let us remember. During his first two years, when there was a 'kinda' Democratic majority in the Senate (but not the magic '6...

I gave up on Twitter, as being too superficial. I like Facebook, because I can tell, at a glance, what my 'Friends' are thinking ...

The Washington Circus is so damn distressing that I can't deal with it anymore. The 2010 voters sure picked a crop of outstanding citize...

As an after-thought, we planted some teeny garlic starts last Fall. Haven't done anything with that patch except some casual weeding an...

It's a no-brainer for me. We sometimes keep our one-DVD-at-a-time for weeks before watching it, and I have found MANY gems (umm, and a ...

We never voiced discomfort when the News Media collectively decided that any knowledge or mention of History was now considered irrelevant. ...

I am behind the times, in the cell-phone world. My current phone, an HTC Tilt 2, runs Windows Mobile 6.5, and I bought it used for $60 (crai...

Thankfully, the commemoration of the 50 th anniversary of Hemingway's suicide is over, and, despite the general admission that the man ...

A friend (you know who you are) forwarded me an email from Newsmax.com, inviting me to respond to a poll whose questions were so skewed to ...

Pasadena, to be exact. Sure was hot down there, and our tomatoes here in Portland are doing fine. Unfortunately, our fruit trees (apples an...

9 pm PDT, somewhere over the western US. It's about 24 hours since we woke up in Paris, and just over an hour until we land in Portland....

Amazing things keep happening. When Dave was in the neighborhood doing laundry the other day, he spotted an attractive, old restaurant, tha...

After the post-catacombs refreshments, we parted company with Sandy and Dave, planning to meet for dinner, three hours from now. On the firs...

We had an early breakfast and headed to the catacombs tour, arriving at 9 for the 10 am opening. We were not first in line, but close and, ...

Tuesday morning in Paris-when-it-drizzles. Heading out for breakfast shortly, then to the catacombs, for what should be the final organized ...