Viva Las Vegas!!! i’m here in sunny San Jose International Airport waiting to fly to even sunnier Las Vegas, NV. It’s spring break and i have an entire week to party!! (And by “party”, i mean lounge by the pool, lounge in the spa, eat good food, lounge some more…i am a real party animal.) […]

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This weekend much of the western world celebrated St. Patrick’s day by wearing green, drinking copious pints of green beer, and listening to Irish music bands with names like The O’Malleys and Toad in the Hole.   Bands who, one night a year, are fought over by dive bar booking agents who could care less […]

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You know it’s a Happy Catastrophy-style day when it begins with a 70 year old ocean wind surfer in Santa Cruz and ends with sushi in San Francisco. Saturday morn, the Man surprises me by telling me we are taking the long way to The City tonight, (or, to translate the hip Bay Area lingo: […]

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Fourscore and about 100 years ago, this was my home: Somehow i remember it being a lot smaller. And less beige.  (Did it always have a second story?) In my memories, the sun is shining every day, Ma is hanging up the washing in the backyard to dry while Pa is off working hard to […]

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