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That was a close shave.

Just a close shave. Darn! My electric shaver is broke. The head and foil has come apart. I thought I had another to replace it with but discovered I do not. This got me to thinking. What if I grew a beard? I tried it once or twice when in college. The miscellaneous scruff IContinue reading “That was a close shave.”

My Book Report.

Book Report. So here you have two parentless Irish immigrant kids arriving in a new country, a run-away slave seeking freedom, and a California gold mining man from China. All looking for a new life or hopefully new opportunities in the expanding land called America. Experiencing both success and hardship. Some traveling on, working for,Continue reading “My Book Report.”

Come on into my studio.

How to record music. Back in the early 1980s and up in to the mid-1990s I owned and operated a recording studio. Recording all sort of virtuosos, song writers, small bands, big bands, country, Bluegrass, gospel, rock and you name it bands. I recorded harps and harpsichords. Choirs and even one woman laughing. I recordedContinue reading “Come on into my studio.”

Write me a story.

Stepping lively in her new pink New Balance running shoes, Michael Anna was speeding between ancient class buildings. In a big freaking rush to get to her Third-World Economic class she was to lecture as an adjunct. Being a first semester senior, she had agreed to occasionally lecture with the agreement that the university wouldContinue reading “Write me a story.”

It was like having cows in our front yard.

The dairy came to us. The chilled paper carton I picked up from the dairy case read 2% MILK. Homogenized Fortified with vitamin-D. All printed on a half-gallon paper carton with a plastic screw off pouring spout. As I held it in my left hand, I couldn’t help but remember Johnny the milkman. A neatlyContinue reading “It was like having cows in our front yard.”

Audio Post: Outside the motherland’s border.

But wait a minute buster.

They come to serve. I still get a big charge out of a wait staffer when coming to take your food or drink order at our favorite restaurants. Especially when they are a new hire. Our last encounter was with a young man probably a freshman college student at the nearby State University. Most likelyContinue reading “But wait a minute buster.”

We be neither Julia Child nor Wolfgang Puk.

International cooking contest? Four other neighbors and myself are on one of five teams in a cooking contest. Neither one of us are known bakers, cookers, nor chefs. Certainly, least of all a chef. That’s laughable. Ha! But anyway, our team was assigned to cook, bake, or formulate something akin to German fare. German food.Continue reading “We be neither Julia Child nor Wolfgang Puk.”

Looking for a good ending.

Writer’s challenge. He was in a rush picking out a last pair of socks from his sock drawer. Discovering, to his horror, one sock was brown and the other red and white stripe. He was miffed because he was late to a significant business meeting with his bankers. However, he was hoping to find pantsContinue reading “Looking for a good ending.”

Book Report, bestseller.

Book Report Even though this book comes in print and E-book version, the audio book is most entertaining. The young lady/voice actor gives this book a third dimension along with a little bit of Technicolor. None the less, it can be found in print if you wish. Twenty-five-year-old Molly Gray or as some call herContinue reading “Book Report, bestseller.”