Who Doesn’t Like The Blue Angels?
I don’t. Just arrived back in Arizona after 48 hours in El Centro, CA. Turns out the nearby military air base is home to the…
Xmas Eve & Xmas Day
The Dinner Wow. The venison dinner was everything we’d hoped it would be plus a disco light! Here are some highlights… …
It’s Not Supposed To Be This Cold, Is It?
They call it unseasonable and unusual. In fact, what it is, is cold.
Magic Hour on the Ranch
My pal Cliff came for a visit and to share a couple of beers yesterday afternoon. We were independently, spontaneously snapping phone pics of the mountains as magic hour
‘Always RV’ in Mesa, Arizona
As difficult as it’s been dealing with the couple of major issues I’ve had with my RV not to mention all of the medium-sized and more trivial ones, Always RV has been the one consistent bright spot. Trailer life, for me, has been enhanced immeasurably by my interactions with Dave and his team and I’ll never be able to thank them enough.
Video Thursday
As I wait out the last day or two of my unfortunate tethering to Mesa, Arizona, I’m going to catch up here on a couple…
Shoplifting
I didn’t want to forget to write about how much I enjoyed watching Shoplifters last night. Not since I watched Rafiki earlier this year have I been so impressed and touched by genuine emotion in a film. It’s so rare and it’s happened twice this year. I feel very lucky.
Reading Update
I randomly grabbed the next book from one of the two bins of books I brought along in the back of my pick-up and came out with Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer. Thanks to recommendations from my buddy Jason, who reads something like 300 books/year and often encouraged me to read when I badly needed that encouragement, which is to say my entire life until a couple of months ago, I’d read his previous Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I enjoyed them both very much so I was only slightly intimidated by this latest book’s 571 pages.
Happy Thanksgiving!
I also give thanks for the generations of African and Native Americans who have fought bravely for this country in every war we’ve waged, Civil and otherwise, then returned to their homes where they were met with the very same discrimination and revolting racism that they’d left in order to serve.
Insomnia
…sucks. Last night was a bad one. I don’t have very many of those anymore, mostly due to the miracle of pharmaceutical drugs. From childhood through…