New Year’s Day 2009 Run! Originally uploaded by Ernesto and Kristen Burden Mulling over some resolutions for 2009 during my run today. I came up with a long list of ever more complicated resolutions, many with clauses, appendices and exemptions, some with deeply-nested if-then statements. Embarrassing, I realized as I sat down to type them [...]
One of the best parts about in-town living is the great neighbors we have. And though we all get along and really like each other, we don't see them all that often. Busy lives, different schedules. But almost every time there's a good snow, you're sure to find neighbors from two or three of the [...]
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I rented a tux for a buddy's wedding a few month's back, and got a coupon for Men's Wearhouse. So I took the coupon and went 'back-to-school' shopping and bought a new sport coat for work. It had been quite a few years, and my old ones were starting to look threadbare…Anyhow, I loved the coat, [...]
USPS: We care (?) Originally uploaded by Ernesto and Kristen Burden The latest issue of Guitar World arrived today… shredded (ha!). The note on the bag holding torn up mag (no way to decipher the sheet music in there!) and shattered instructional DVD: we care. But then no evidence in the following three graphs of [...]
A neighbor yells at kids for climbing a tree in front of their own house. Then after the mother refuses to make them stop, the neighbor calls the police. Sheesh. Makes me happy to have always had great luck in neighbors. The ones with kids have known first hand the fine line between protecting [...]
The bluest sky Originally uploaded by Ernesto and Kristen Burden We hiked Uncanoonuc with the kids. Now I’m lying on my back on a rock at the summit while the kids gambol about the alpine meadow. The sky is as blue as a painted ceiling. Sweet.
An annual part of moving from spring to summer for me is the ritual transition from the beloved warm amber of the single-malt Scotch to the icy clear shimmer of the gin martini, up, dry, with a twist of lime. Which is not to say that I’d decline a Scotch June, July or August, or [...]
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Memorial Day weekend, the weather’s cooperating in spectacular fashion (how often does this happen?), and in honor of the arrival of the summer season, Kris and I are sampling some Mediterranean delights – specifically two Italian liquors, GranGala Triple Orange Liquor and Limoncé Limoncello. The GranGala was a perfect compliment to more complex cocktails, and [...]
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I terrifically enjoyed the book In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, by Michael Pollan – and agreed with many of the author's arguments, including: people (myself included) should generally eat better quality food and less of it, people should eat real food, not processed food product, and that people should eat more leaves. Right [...]
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