What do you call a cousin in law? The guy who is married to my cousin - do I just call him my cousin?
The sun was out. Warm. A good day for home haircutting. Plenty of natural light so that you can see all the mistakes. I cut my Dad's hair. I'll cut hair for anyone who shows up. No big...
I went to The Grocery Store. Bought 6 items. $37.05. I clipped all of the store's weekly advertisement coupons. I even got an extra $1 off. In my mind, I was thinking that $37.05 was too high. The bottom of the receipt showed that I saved $58.58. The full retail price of my 6 items was...
Sunday. A day of worship for some. In some places in The U.S.A., alcohol is not allowed to be sold on Sunday. No such law around here. Bright and early, I'm running around the neighborhood, with a can of beer in my hand. Cafes with a full brunch crowd assures me that not everyone is...
Hannah. Princess Hannah. Named after the creator of my favorite cartoon. Tom & Jerry. Violence set to classical music. In her culture, they still have a King. She actually is a real live princess. Part of a 2,000 member extended royal family. All with a traceable lineage. If 650 people...
The Shot Doc. It's always good to have a doctor handy. You never know when you might need a doctor's note, or a prescription for something. She probably lives in fear of the day when I need her to patch me up from a gunshot wound.
I found her at a community vaccination clinic. Idealistic...
The "RealFeel" is 69 degrees Fahrenheit. I don't know what that really means. I'm driving the car today. Black tinted windows. No sun rays get in. But I am still using the air conditioning.
Chinatown. In a lot of major metropolitan areas, the Chinese neighborhoods are next to the...
It started with her Dad. Mei Mei's Dad was legendary for his food. Decades ago, a neighborhood guy wanted to be Sheriff. An elected office. He asked Mei Mei's Dad to cater the Chinatown campaign office. Hot food for volunteers, who often worked late into the evening. Easy enough. Trays of...
When we first met, she told me that she just got hired to work at the district attorney's office. I told her, "interesting, I might be sitting at the other table." She giggled and asked, "defense counsel"? With a straight face, I said, "defendant". She laughed even harder. She thought that...
She was born a few decades late for socialist, hippy counterculture. The product of a middle class home in the suburbs, with 2 income earning parents: she went to all the protests and rallies driving a BMW which Daddy paid for, and wearing the most expensive clothes from the mall. She would have...
I went there when I was in high school. By that time, TGI Friday's was already a corporate franchise found in suburban shopping mall locations, and where you could find travelers. The 2 locations in the area were out by the airport, and along Fisherman's Wharf.
This was back when drinking...
For those who remember, the last 100 years or so, "craft cocktails" have been chic. As a young boy, we went to places like Tonga Room and Trader Vic's for colorful drinks with paper umbrellas.. There were "fern bars" like Henry Africa's. T.G.I. Friday's had a special menu of special...
http://coffee.caffetrieste.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffe_Trieste
My neighborhood had a "coffee culture". People did walk around with cups of coffee. Big cups and small. Although back then, nobody had a 32 ounce, quart size cup. Everyone that I knew, went out for coffee. It was...
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