I love the 1940s

November 9, 2014
It's fun to play the game "What other era would you have liked to live in, do you think?" M. and I play it from time to time and his answer is always the 1950s, when he...

Holiday gift guide

November 8, 2014
The older we get the harder it is to find unique and suitable gifts, especially for those who have everything. Well, hold on to your stocking cap, because today's...

Reincarnation & the next step

November 7, 2014
 Should I stay here? But I could not do it. It was not my world, and there was so much to be done in the others.  ~Greta Wells in The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells...

Best New Age gift idea I’ve seen

November 6, 2014
I love giving gifts. The process of choosing just the right thing for my loved ones is one of my greatest pleasures.  For me, it's not a materialistic thing, it's a...

How to be a good house guest

November 5, 2014
Girlfriend tells me that last holiday season she had the house guest from hell. Ok, maybe that's an exaggeration. But as she described it, her house guest was a bit...

Bill Cosby: bad behavior writ large

November 4, 2014
Bad behavior writ large is how Plato described the state--sort of like the individual, but larger and easier to examine. And that larger stage, so to speak, is why I'm...

All my dreams on a downtown train

November 3, 2014
The other month I read that years ago, Bob Seger was talking to Rod Stewart about a Tom Waits song he was excited about recording called Downtown Train.  He did...

Coffee vs. Red Bull: which is more civilized?

November 2, 2014
I love a cup of hot, strong coffee in the morning, and not just a cup. A big mug.  The coffee's got to be good, too. None of that Maxwell House or burnt Starbucks for...

We can’t do it alone

November 1, 2014
Much excitement in the Bay area as our San Francisco Giants gave us a nail-biting, Valium-swallowing final game and pulled off their third World Series win in five...

Sugar Skulls and the Day of the Dead

October 31, 2014
Have you noticed that sugar skulls are everywhere this season? Calaveras de azucar (sugar skulls)  are part of the Mexican observance of the Day of the Dead, a...

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