Oddball Observations

You may have noticed yours truly bragging on his blueberry flaugnarde the other day. You remember. I started out calling it a clafoutis ...

Today's news: the government is still shut down, Roger Stone has been indicted and arrested, a Connecticut woman charged with D.U.I. was...

The other day I was chatting with my soon-to-be really old friend, Baseball Steve, and he asked me if I ever do anything in the kitchen ...

"These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not.  They take tithes from the poor and weak to support t...

He used to come and spar with Blackwell through the pane of a slider door. Matty. A cat who belongs to our neighbor. Doug had told me ...

Back in late 1991, we were ending 4+ years living in Mexico and moving back to the U.S. Specifically to Austin, Texas. We had picked Aus...