Monthly Archives: January 2016

  My friends Rae and David are in San Francisco and they have sent me several photographs of themselves in front of famous landmarks. It brought back memories of when I lived there. I think of myself as a ten year alcoholic, but when I look back on my time in San Francisco, it is […]

Did you know STAT comes from the Latin word “statim,” which means “immediately”? I have never known what it meant in the hospital shows, but I like the way it sounds – important and urgent when a TV doctor demands, “Get the defibrillator STAT! We’re losing him!” Not that I need anything too quickly here – it is […]

  I was having dinner with a friend last weekend and he asked me, “What’s the best way to get a person to stop drinking?” I think we all know someone who is teetering on the edge of alcoholism. I get people asking for advice often – telling me they have a friend who is behaving dangerously, asking […]

  I penned a post about doing the Drunken Disappearing Act a month ago; I was the designated driver a lot during the holidays and it reminded me of how I used to get to a point in the evening where something would click and  I’d think, “If I don’t get out of here now […]

  Yesterday I got in my car, all bright as a button at 6:45 and the gear shift knob was stuck in PARK. It would not budge, even though everything else was working like a car is supposed to work – radio on, lights on, heat pumping and so on. This is not something I […]

  After Amber’s show on Friday, Lauren, John and I went to one of those ultra-hip, winery-as-restaurant places. We walked into a wine tasting bar with seven million bottles of wine stacked floor to thirty foot ceiling. More bottles were displayed decoratively on tables, together with wine enthusiast’s frippery and those tea towels you use to wipe […]

  I was speaking to a friend of mine the other day about  the years I lived in The Bahamas. He had some similar experiences in the islands and we were reminiscing about the lifestyle. At the time, we were sitting in a restaurant in Michigan with a foot of snow outside and a fresh batch drifting […]

“Butterfly Man Final Web” Mixed Media Ambler Hutchinson   My friend Ambler Hutchinson is having an exhibit at Florida Mining Gallery. The opening is this Friday night, but the show runs until February 15th, so if you can – click on the link above for more information and go see it. I have done a […]

  After my experience with the cab driver, serial killer with the poopy pants, I bought a Powerball ticket. I was at the Gate Station at 5 a.m. on Saturday buying cat food (don’t ask), and since the cab driver was actually a nice man with what I am now assuming was a melted Cadbury Bar on […]