This is gonna be a quick one...(but it's been on my mind for a while).Who says that the Year has to be divided into Quarters? -- I vote for Thirds. That way, we lump January thru April together, then...
Travers Day from Out Here…
As I walk the rambunctious pup at dusk, the season's BIGGEST RACE now done, far more important people than me are jetting overhead, up and out of the County airport, to destinations more pressing or latitudes more impressive than Saratoga...
Dog Day Acquisition… Dawg Ownership Begins
Part Two... Pet History as of Summer 2014So it was May 31st of this year when our lives changed, and we became "dog people." (This is the ballad of Bentley...)It was a somewhat spurious decision-- my wife's local yoga teacher...
Otherwise the Plan for August 10th at SPAC…
If all had gone well, and if a certain jerk of a pedestrian hadn't jumped in front of the headline act's tour bus in Boston last night, I would not be here writing this right now. I would be already...
Cat Owner Becomes Dog Dude, 2014
Prelude-- My Life With A Sequence of Cats...I have pretty much always had cats in my apartment or house, since college. Diring Junior High and High School, I grew up with Spooky and Fuzz-- one a grey tiger cat we...
July Potpourri, in and around Saratoga, 2014
My life has been a constant vacillation between competing urges-- wrestling with desire to be in the middle of the madding throng... (say, recently, on the dance floor listening to a way-loud Funk Evolution at Dango's in July, or soon...
The Head and the Heart at Upstate Concert Hall 5/26/2014
As I began to write this, we were into early June, and as of 4 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon-- when most upstate towns are in a semi-somnolent state, the Broadway Saratoga scene was bustling and jammed like mid-summer...
Catch Up Blog for 2014–
For reasons I won't get into here, I've not published a bit for this blog in 5 months...I know. It's time to start again. I had to resolve and get beyond some old karmic debts of in my rear...
Solstice: 2013– More Music Notes
So much going on, good to have a lull-- "What a lovely day to be lonelay." as Broken Bells sing. For me the Saturday before Christmas forms such a day-- not too many demands from the real estate public,...
2013 Faves on the Radio
Sorry to have been derelict in my duties as self-appointed music blogger, but here I go: a blast on a stay-at-home Sunday to make up for my slackerdom. I am on the road so much of each week that I...