Mixed Meters

You see them a lot this time of year.  End of Year Lists.  Best Of Lists.  Worst Of Lists.  All Kinds of Yearly Lists. I've always sup...

(Listen while you read.) Did you survive December 21, 2012? That date was predicted by some to be the end of the world .  It had somethi...

As my contribution to home front morale in the continuing War Against Christmas this is the first of two musical offerings - the annual Mix...

The Hanukkah holiday is here. Hooray. I guess. Although this is one celebration which leaves me with some doubts: Without any children to ...

It's like a short story in two scenes. Scene 1 - after dark somewhere on the California freeway system.  A couple returns from a short...

Two posts ago I wrote about Leslie's and my twentieth wedding anniversary . A few days later we set off on a short vacation, driving up...

We in the U.S. had an election recently.   Roseanne Barr came in sixth.  The election went on forever and cost a fortune and won't make...

It's our first score .  Every American school child who ever studied the Gettysburg Address will understand. Exactly twenty years ago ...

When I encounter a lost glove while on my walks I usually stop to photograph it.  Here's a collection of snaps of lonely, abandoned glov...

Musical Marketing is a Mixed Meters Meme . No one else cares much. This installment we begin with three drinkables: a Chardonnay with a ...

If you're a person who gets livid when confronted with pictures of Che Guevara, please, by all means, leave immediately. Possibly you...