Friday after Thanksgiving I hiked with a couple of friends up North and South Fortuna mountains. We came across two mountain bikers on the steep saddle trail up to the first peak. One guy was on his back in pain, while his friend was bent over him wondering what to do. I noticed the scratched up bloody knee first, so of course I whipped out my first aid kit and handed some bandages and some antiseptic wipes to the friend,…
I recently finished a book titled To Say Nothing of the Dog, by Connie Willis. It’s not really about a dog, though there’s a dog in the story; it’s really more about time travel … and fate. I’ve read one other time travel book by the same author called Doomsday Book, which was heavy both in tone as well as in weight, but this book was lighter, more fun, and humorous — and it made me think about Fate with a…
Over the weekend I drove a friend and my mom to Ramona for another batch of persimmons. My mom and I had finished the two 5-gallon bucketfuls we got at the end of October, and my friend had never been to a persimmon farm before, so we all went on Saturday to get some while they’re still in season. We ended up buying three buckets full of persimmons (each bucket being 20-30 pounds, for a total of 240-300 persimmons) and…
I read somewhere that no one really reads blogs any more and that blogging is the least effective of all forms of content marketing. People would rather get their information or entertainment by watching videos. So I guess I’m writing here for my own entertainment. I began this blog essentially as an online journal — a diary with a potential for an audience — and I didn’t care whether or not I had that audience. In the beginning, I didn’t have any….
2016 has been a tough year — among many other famous people, singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen recently passed. He wrote “Hallelujah,” one of my favorite songs to sing and play on the guitar. The version I play only has four verses, and other versions I’ve heard also have four verses, but they are a different set of four verses. That said, I’ve read somewhere that Cohen actually drafted around 80 total verses. I don’t know if anyone has ever sung all of…