I’m always amazed at how it often takes a tourist to get a native to see the sights of his or her own city/state/country. I lived in Manh...

Last week’s New York Times Magazine contained a piece by Mark Bittman with three yummy-sounding recipes for leg of lamb. As I read t...

As you can see, I've been very busy...

One of the great things about Austin is the variety of slightly bizarre and clearly funky happenings that seem to occur on a daily basis....

Happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone!

Today is my younger son’s birthday – 28 years old. A victory of sorts, as his philosophy of life could at times have been described as “F...

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” A Google search reveals that saying to be attributed to...

It's my own version of the red carpet treatment...

Tournament bridge has been a passion of mine for a very long time – in college, I was one of those people in the dorm who would ambush an...

A little something for my friends in the frozen North...