City mouse: Saw an old friend over dinner at Westville East (must try: roasted artichokes). She is leaving NYC after a decade.  She was my roommate when I first started writing songs and would listen to all my new songs and come to every show.  And she would assess the worthiness of fellow bandmates and [...]

City mouse: Dinner at Izakaya 10, LV HRD party at Galapagos (go architects), C’s Bday party at the adorable new Lulu’ (great trout and brussels), Ice skating at Wollman (need to learn how to triple sowkow or however this is spelled), Rachel Getting Married, Dinner at Kampuchea, J’s Bday party at Fontana’s, hysterical night of [...]

It so happens that my top 3 NYC buildings are located blocks away from each other along Madison Park.  I, of course, love the Chrysler very much along with the Empire State and the buildings of Lincoln Center and even the new Hearst Building, but these are the best: The Met Life buildings and New [...]

For every innocent person incarcerated, the real perpetrator goes free. Free to commit more crimes.  The innocent, losing out on minutes, days, years of life and exposed to horrors within the prison walls is robbed.  Society is robbed of security and justice. The most famous New York example of this is the Central Park jogger [...]

I hated piano lessons.  Really.  But I remained under Mrc. C’s guidance for 18 years because she was so involved, lived so close so the problem of not having anyone to drive me there didn’t count (unlike skating and dance and gymnastics lessons. sigh), and because there was perhaps some underlying notion between my father [...]

Whenever I hear about somebody settling down somewhere outside a big city, I am fascinated by what brought them there. Certainly, the answer is often economic, but even so, I want to know the details.  What sort of job or industry or circumstance lead the Laotians to settle in Richmond, CA? T. was telling me [...]

“Do you think she’s pregnant?” Sari asks one morning as we spin away on two stationary bikes at the gym in our neighborhood. “I don’t know,” I say. “Maybe she has a distended stomach from not eating.” “I hope she’s not pregnant. She doesn’t look healthy.” She is quite skinny but doesn’t look full on [...]

Yes. I did it.  Though I can’t quite figure out what half the layout means, I am actually blogging.  I love to write as some of you know.  And I sure like to watch the world go by.  I wish I had a niche like to write about shoes, or decorative pillows, or pizza recipes, [...]