by Brian | Sep 15, 2013 | News
Like everyone, I am good at some things and not at others. My “not” list bothers me. I have spent decades trying to learn French. Beyond “oui” I am just a “non.” And there’s wine and wine paring. I’ve gone to classes, read, red and white, sipped, spit and gotten ever...
by Brian | Sep 7, 2013 | News
A couple of months ago, Suzen and I took a weekend and paid our first visit to the Finger Lakes. It’s an area everyone hears about but I just had no idea what to expect. It’s a lovely, expansive land that, it turns out, is not north of us in the Catskills, just...
by Brian | Sep 6, 2013 | News
It’s Friday the 6th so next Friday will be the 13th but it already seems bad. Poison gas has been used in Syria, Obama wants to bomb, Congress probably won’t vote to support it, the rest of the world does not want to act but expects us to act so they can diss us....
by Brian | Aug 16, 2013 | News
You might expect an article on bread culture in France to appear in the Wednesday food and dining section of The New York Times. On Wednesday, July 31, the bread story appeared as the lead article in the International section of the paper. This was not a story about...
by Brian | Aug 15, 2013 | News, Personal
Well, you know, I did not want to be an obnoxious patient but by the time I got to his office, I was concerned. The problem was not going away. “I have the color thingy,” I said to my doctor. “I looked it up on Wikipedia. You didn’t tell me it might happen and …” My...
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by Brian | Aug 9, 2013 | News
“Avocados?” I was incredulous. “Oh, yes. And, of course, bananas.” I knew about the bananas. When I just to jog [before my knees interfered], I would come back after 10 or more miles and devour banana nectar. Loved the stuff. That potassium hit was supreme...
