15 Minutes of Fame

“We played Bumbershoot! They can’t take that away from us!” That was Hal, back in our rehearsal room where we stood waiting to hear if the show had been called due to – you guessed it – rain. We made it through four songs before the rain started really coming down. Then we made a …


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Do the Right Thing

Last winter when we had the big snow, our little valley was broken up by avalanches. We could go East to town, but not west. Things were fairly open to us, we had everything we needed and the stores were still open. Some of the villages reached by the narrow nearby backroads were totally inaccessible, …


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Show’s Up

Zip zip, the show’s up at North Hill Bakery. Stop in, eat a cookie, look at art. Your work is cut out for you.

Bumper Crop

Every year, I put tomato plants in the ground and every year I think this: Not gonna happen. I fret about how scrawny the plants are. I fret about what an apathetic gardener I am. I don’t water enough, I water too much, I don’t weed enough, I forget about the plants for days at …


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New Show in the Works

If you missed it last time at Verite, you’ll have another chance to see Die Wunder der Natur right here on Cap Hill. Yummy treats to be had at the new location, too. Baked goods, weird art. They go together like, um, baked goods and weird art. The show opens September 1 at North Hill …


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Vasona Park, 1973

L and I were little kids together. Maybe our families met at temple, I’m not really sure. While we did have the random Passover together, most of my memories are from days at the park feeding the ducks, big picnics with other families, and the night my youngest brother was born. L’s mom gave me …


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