You Definitely Want the Mint with It

This soup was on the daily lunch menu at my favorite restaurant the other day. One of our group got the soup — she said the mint was a nice counterbalance to the other main ingredient.

I Just Want to Bang on the Drum All Day

This sign cracked me up. It’s on 4th Street and Fairmount in a bay window that juts into the sidewalk. I submitted it to Passive Aggressive Notes.com. (We didn’t see the cat, and even though I was tempted to bang on the window to make it come out, I suppressed the urge.)

We Planted a Sequoia This Weekend

I wrote a note to the people who will be living in our house a hundred years from now explaining why we planted that redwood tree where we did. The sequoia will grow to at least 100 feet tall and have a 40-foot spread. The people in our house in 2108 will probably wonder why [...]

He’s Uncle Joe and He’s Movin’ Kinda Slow

I used to like to go places. I liked hopping on airplanes and seeing new cities. Now, with the state of air travel, I’d be just fine in my own backyard.
I have to fly to Milwaukee today. Really, it should be fine. I’m on Midwest Airlines, which is a pretty civilized way of traveling. They [...]

I’m a Lucky Man

Lest I forget what a lucky man I am, in the last week we sat in our box at the Pennsylvania Ballet and saw the premier of Dance of the Animals; we sat in our front row seats at Walnut Street Theater to see the best rendition of Les Miserables ever; and yesterday we sat [...]

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