Founder of The French Laundry Sally Schmitt Sally Schmitt / February 28, 1932 – March 5th, 2022 (Note: I heard the song above a few weeks after I wrote this blog and am now just adding it as it seems to exemplify Sally so much to me. Here, a big band with an elegant piece […]
THE ART OF ROB GONSALVES “I believe that there is a real magic in life. Sometimes the experience of it can be dependent on one’s point of view. I have come to see the making of art as the search for that point of view where the magic and wonder of life appears not so […]
Nothing gives us hope as much as the arrival of a new baby. Here is the arrival of that message of hope named Owen Sanford Ullman. My wife Stephanie is now a grandmother for the first time and I am a new step-grandfather. A huge congratulations to new parents Drew and Kelly and new grandparents […]
“Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.” Carl Sagan __________________________________________________ Watching the short three and a half minute video above with astronomer Carl Sagan’s narration has […]
Sometimes, the best trips are the spontaneous ones undertaken at the spur of the moment with no real plan. Like the short trip my son Chris and I took on a hot August in Sonoma County. We first stopped at the award-winning Wilson Winery on Dry Creek Road just west of Healdsburg, California. First photos […]
The legendary Al Dimeola who I first heard with Weather Report. This was recorded at Butler University in Indianapolis on 9/8/22. The great table player Amit Kavthekar is on the right and drummer Richie Morales on the left. (I wish I had my external Sennheiser mic on my Sony Rx 100 VII and also used […]
The Forgotten Master Martin Lewis died in obscurity in 1962; a retired art teacher who had found some success in his early career, but was largely forgotten after the Great Depression took away the demand for his craft, leaving Lewis to spend his last three decades teaching other people how to etch. History chose Edward […]
We had traveled all night from LA on our way back from Sonoma and arrived at O’Hare at 5:00 am for a final layover before the final leg of our flight to Columbus. I had not gotten any sleep and could hardly hold my eyes open. Sitting at a table by a window looking out […]
A FEW NOTES A little background on the following short story might be in orderl. Although I hate stepping into intros like this to short stories. They seem like apologies in some way. The story was written around 2013 when I was living in Palm Desert, California and was a member of the Palm Desert […]
An interesting chart from one of my favorite sites … Visual Capitalist. Showing imports by state in America. This is certainly not something to be proud of. In fact, it is a good indicator of weakness under the general theory that the more a county or state has to import products to sustain it the weaker […]
