While I’m preparing my house for another family celebration, my niece Lil A has been busy carrying on the fashionista gene. I’d mentioned before that we share the same birthday (hence, the “4/18 Club”), but as she’s developing her personality, it seems that we have a lot more in common than a mere date. If that first photo does not …
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Fashion Indigestion
It started with that photo above, which led to a trunk show months ago where I pawed the supple, nubby leather and drooled over the bag. To be honest, I didn’t remember all that much about the bag after I left the viewing but the leather definitely made an impression on me. It was not smooth lambskin like in the …
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Diary Of A Mad Boxer
For some of us, Boxing Day is a secular holiday that falls on the day after Christmas. It may (depending on your employer) buy you an extra day off at work to spend more time with family and friends. Or in my case, with strangers, all of whom afflicted with the same shopping addiction in varying degrees of seriousness. And …
Joy, Peace, And A Sunny Disposition
You’ve probably heard that we had almost 7 full days of rain here in California, and for southern Cal, that’s practically as bad as 40 days and 40 nights. But in spite of the horrific mudslides in some of our hills, a full rainbow showed up at the end of the rains… and the next day we all got into …
A Suspension Bridge In The Mist
It’s a brief takeout for lunch because one person in my travel party is suffering from a bad case of food poisoning, and having been through that myself on the road a few years ago, I know it’s no fun to look at food at all. So we grab some Boudin to go… and leave the Wharf, just as the …