Corndogs + Avocados

In early August Mom and I went to the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco for the Women Impressionists exhibit. It was wonderful! If you have a chance, it is well worth the visit. Click on any of the images below to see them larger. (Sorry, no shots of the [...]

I’m at the Embarcadero waiting for my bus and Tibetan flags are everywhere. People are waving them and wearing them draped around their shoulders. The Olympic torch comes through San Francisco today and local Tibetans are out en masse to protest human rights abuses in their former homeland.
Cops are on every corner.
Many shirts say [...]

On the train this morning I saw something I haven’t seen for nearly 10 years when I had one in college. I caught a glimpse of it attached to the belt of the gentleman in front of me and I wasn’t sure my eyes hadn’t deceived me until the gentleman took if from his belt, [...]

I was in Salt Lake a week or so ago to visit some family and had an interesting discussion with someone about living far from people we love. We both discovered we were missing people from home - some who are still there and some who have long since passed on. I grew up in [...]

What do Derf, Dar-head, Dar-hang, Big-D, and Bebe all have in common? They are all nicknames for yours truly. When Liz disapproves of something I have done, she calls me “Señor-[fill-in-the-blank]“. For example, if I leave my work pants on the floor rather than putting them away she would call me Señor-pants-on-the-floor. The Señor nickname [...]