The Zoo |
I took Audra to the zoo today. We arrived early but there were still hundreds of people in groups yelling at lemurs and climbing the fence for a better look at seals eating dead fish. I tried to...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:42:00 GMT |
This week in Metro Times |
cocktails: http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=11907 the emory: http://www.metrotimes.com/guide/restaurants/review.asp?id=10
496 And staff picks, too. Guess mine. ...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:14:00 GMT |
Delicious Autumn |
Despite a mild hangover and general lethargy incurred from the night before, Sunday morning I packed up the family wagon and headed west. First stop was Erwin Orchards in South Lyon. It's apple harves...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:03:00 GMT |
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird |
by Wallace Stevens
I Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird.
II I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds.
III The blackbird whi...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:53:00 GMT |
Secrets to success |
Life severely deals with those of us who didn't figure out what we want at the very beginning. We spend much of our existence drifting through our office or retail establishment like a phantom, wonder...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:16:00 GMT |
from Leaves of Grass |
What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:25:00 GMT |
Shades of Sisyphus |
Once, camping in Onaway State Park, we were entertained by a chipmunk rolling a small potato up the hill behind our campsite presumably to its burrow. He was always almost two-thirds up when inev...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:14:00 GMT |
Mexican Chocolate Icebox Cookies |
Chocolate and pepper you say. Ask the indigenous Mexicans or eat some real mole poblano. Mexican Chocolate Icebox Cookies 1/2 cup flour 3/4 cup dutch-process unsweetened cocoa 3/4 tsp. cinnamon 1/2-3/...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:03:00 GMT |
Home improvement |
In a fit of unbridled ambition, wife will deconstruct some portion of a room that needs to be updated. Say, a couple walls in the bathroom, for instance. This can happen at any time in spite of lack o...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:20:00 GMT |
Now an official contributing member to MySpace and Twitter |
Not to mention Detroit Drinks.
If anyone has ideas for further diversions that don't require self-mutilation, cable television, or have even remote connection with dogs and peanut but...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:08:00 GMT |
