As I alluded in the previous entry, I’m visiting my folks this weekend in smalltown Appalachia. I love my family, and I enjoy spending time with them, but I’ve already been involved in one unwise political discussion with my sister (hint: she doesn’t allow anyone to listen to the Dixie Chicks in her presence); just […]
Yesterday, while getting ready for my trip home to visit my family for a long weekend, I heard a feature on NPR about the 1963 original prototype for G.I. Joe being auctioned, with an expectation that he might fetch as much as $600,000. Later news articles report that bids for the 40-year-old didn’t even reach […]
Monday evening Rebel Cutie and I went to see Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at DC’s annual “Screen on the Green.” I even got to break in my picnic backpack as we broke out some hummus, couscous, cheese, fruit and my signature curried tuna salad. When we first met up on the steps of […]
From an online article entitled “Gray hair and age”: The first onset of gray hair and the speed at which people go gray varies considerably from person to person. Most people actually start going gray in their late 20s but they don’t notice it immediately. Premature graying is defined as gray hair onset before late […]
Saturday at lunch at R.T.’s in Alexandria, Peg and I ran into my friend David, a fellow squaredancer, friend of Dorothy and resident of my condo building, having lunch there with a friend of his down from Philadelphia. David asked about my Saab, having seen my friend’s SUV in my parking space and my car […]
It’s been a very full weekend. After a Cajun lunch on Saturday of alligator stew, she-crab soup, and crawfish and shrimp beignets, Peg and I drove out through Fauquier County to the Skyline Drive, entering at Thornton Gap and then driving the 30-some miles north to the Front Royal entrance, stopping along the way at […]
Peg and I went back to Aladdin’s Eatery for dinner last night–Walid was there, but wasn’t serving our section–and I realized that what I’d taken for potential flirtation on his part at lunch on Thursday was likely nothing more than a cultural artifact. Our waiter last night was nearly as attentive, minus the shoulder touching, […]
My friend Peg arrived today from Connecticut to spend the weekend with me. Having met through squaredancing, Peg and I used to see each other at squaredance events several times a year, back when I was still actively dancing. Now that I’ve largely given up the activity, and especially since I’ve been unable to attend […]
One of my colleagues was back in the office today after two weeks away (during which she successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, with distinction), and our boss offered to treat the two of us to lunch, to talk about some upcoming changes in the office as we prepare to welcome two more people the end […]
Cute funny guy Stephen Lynch is returning to the Birchmere the end of September. And the terrific Irish band Gaelic Storm (the Titanic steerage band) will be performing there just four days earlier. You just gotta love a band whose featured sales item on their web site is not a t-shirt but a hip flask: […]