Mixed Meters

September 15 was the eleventh anniversary of Mixed Meters.  I must have started this blog for some good reason.  Right? In my very first ...

Music students who are fans of opera - or who, like me, were friends of fans of opera - inevitably get exposed to the singing of Florence Fo...

Years ago Leslie optimistically planted some strawberries in our back yard. The plants did not thrive in our hot dry summers, although one ...

Back in April I posted pictures of Leslie's carnivorous plants  thriving in her garden. I called it the Danger Garden.  Dangerous only i...

Lacking the time to create a blog post at the high standards you expect, I've created one at the low standards you also expect.  Yes, it...

Warning - if you don't like the F-word permanently incorporated into the presumed Republican candidate's name you might want to sta...

Mixed Meters (i.e. me, David Ocker) commends you to vote for Bernie Sanders in the California Democratic Party Primary next month. I a...

Mixed Meters' Three Readers are saying "What? Three posts in four days?" Yeah, I try to do three posts a month and if I put...

Spring is a nice time in Southern California.  Like Springs everywhere plants here begin to grow again.  And so it is with Leslie's coll...