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Phlooey!
Posted on March 21, 2020 10 Comments
You may rightfully wonder where I have been and why I would choose this of all moments to put up a new post. Well, like many of you, I have some extra time on my hands right now and I would rather be talking to you than sitting in front of the toob, feeling my […]
Eschew on this
Posted on November 25, 2016 38 Comments
It’s Thanksgiving week as we all know. And, I could have prepared a feel good piece about how Geoffrey and I celebrate at a table filled with delicious, ethical seasonal fare such as pistachio risotto with roasted root vegetables and cornbread stuffing with porcini gravy and maple-sweetened yams. But, I am feeling too serious for […]
Portable
Posted on April 29, 2016 37 Comments
When Geoffrey and I were “running” a division of his Dad’s companies we were involved in legal proceedings of various types. During one lawsuit that we had to bring against two individuals, I had to sit in on an assets review. What struck me most, other than how humiliating that process was for the individual being […]
Fouls come home to roost
Posted on February 12, 2016 17 Comments
It’s déjà-vu all over again: Pat Buchanan vs Eugene McCarthy. And the powerful appeal to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs with the primitive emotions of fear and anger at its base is crowding out common sense and prudence. I am going to be blunt and hope we can handle it here as it is just too important to ignore […]
The Jai road
Posted on November 20, 2015 22 Comments
Last month, we took a trip to one of our favorite nearby hidden treasures. Called Ojai (oh-high) by the Chumash, its original inhabitants for hundreds of pre-Columbian years, this is a resort town tucked away in the mountains above Ventura, just miles from the Central California Coast. These pictures are from a recent trip we […]
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