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 [...]
Here's the view from my rock in the middle of the Roaring Branch of the Battenkill in Sunderland, Vermont. I was out for the day, taking a vacation day from work to fish and do a volunteer Web usability study at Orvis. It was a great day — got to have lunch with my grammar [...]
Laser dunes Originally uploaded by Ernesto and Kristen Burden Or sun through blinds and curtains… The unusual shapes caught my eye at home this afternoon. Shot it with my cell phone.
Richard Florida, the guy who wrote Rise of the Creative Class has a new book, Who's Your City, How the Creative Economy is Making the Place Where You Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life. In it he argues that "Globalization is not flattening the world; on the contrary, the world is spiky. Place [...]
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With the first-in-the-nation presidential primary receding in New Hampshire's rearview mirror like a magical carnival from a Ray Bradbury story – sprung up all wild-circus music, clowns, barkers and wizards in the middle of a vacant lot one day and packed up and on down the road the next – it seemed like a good [...]
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