(Dad drew the figures on the left and right in color, unusual for his work at the time. He had done portrait sketches  which was mostly B&W pen and ink. Time was 1947. Like most of the young men of his time, the healthy ones, anyway, he had spent his time in uniform. Mom had a […]

(The late Christine McVie, noted composer and vocalist. She became famous as a member of the band Fleetwood Mac. Her public obituary cited her ‘passing from a short illness.’ Image courtesy Wikipedia). Someone rose in the darkness and screwed around with the coffee maker and the bacon. We like the bacon crisp and as flat […]

Amen to short-illness-syndrome being quick to kill you. We caught the early OG version in January 2020 at a Chinse soup dumpling place down on South Florida’s Dade County where the servers were from mainland China. How did we know where they were from, you might rightfully ask. Well, at our table was our guide […]

Traditionally, this is a pivotal week in the average year. We have celebrated a joyful holiday replete with good food and fellowship with family and fellow citizens. Then, Friday dawned with a traditional surge toward the malls to commence the frenzy of Christmas shopping, to be followed by a gigantic buzz on Cyber Monday. We […]

(Reports this morning are that China’s former leader Jiang Zemin has died at the age of 96. He came to power after the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, an event that echoes some of the growing frustration with China’s response to the Covid virus. Image from our friends at Reuters). We have veered from our […]

There was a vigorous discussion about Latin out on the balcony this morning. A bit chill and gray skies that suggest the onset of moisture falling from the sky.  Well, actually the vigor was more about something called ‘grammar.’ That would normally start with a lower-case letter unless it referred to your Mom’s Mom, both correctly […]