I’ll Eat To That
Travel diaries, food porn, random rants, and various musings about stuff that I feel like musing about.
Blog Posts
TYOLD Day 41: Random Acts of Kindness Day 1
This is Random Acts of Kindness week, so I'm going to do a bunch of them this week as my Differently items. I started today by going to the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf next to my office and I bought a $10 gift card. I paid with a $20 and the barista said, "And I owe you...
TYOLD Day 40: Lifesaver
I have a vague recollection that at some point in my life I learned how to do CPR but it was probably when I was a kid or a young adult and I don't remember much about this morning much less 30 years ago so I'd be pretty useless in an emergency. I can't even get my...
TYOLD Day 39: The NoHo Farmer’s Market
Every Saturday for years now there's a little farmer's market that happens in North Hollywood, about a mile up the street from me. I went for the first time today. It's cute - small (only about a block long) and therefore manageable with some funky details. There was...
TYOLD Day 38: Alanis, Kristen, and Me
Okay, tonight was cool. Arclight Cinemas is a local movie theater chain here in Los Angeles that does some fun special screenings and events including a series from the Modern School of Film where they will show a movie and have a famous person talk about it...
TYOLD Day 37: Everywhere I Have Ever Lived
My life (thus far), courtesy of Google Street View: 221 E. Sunset, Oak Creek, Wisconsin (a suburb of Milwaukee) from birth until about six months old (1966-1967). Apparently back then, this was a one-story house. 2205 Brookside Drive, Bettendorf, Iowa from ages six...
TYOLD Day 36: Why Are the Birds So Angry?
My iPhone has always been more of an appliance than an amusement. I use it mostly to check email, read the news, find out what the weather is going to be like so I know what to wear, deposit checks, take pictures, and the like. I have about 100 apps installed and I...
TYOLD Day 35: We Both Like… Soup
Today, February 4, is National Homemade Soup Day. I don't know who decides such things but they did and so it was declared and so it shall be. My idea of making soup is opening a can, pouring into a bowl, and then microwaving that sucker until it's hot. But this is...
TYOLD Day 34: Record of the Year
I didn't watch the Grammy Awards last weekend - I don't know that I ever have watched the entire thing all the way through. As with most awards shows I go into them with good intentions and then I get bored pretty early on and start multi-tasking and then stop paying...
TYOLD Day 33: The Big Game
For a moment, I thought that I might make my Differently today be to watch the Super Bowl. I never have seen one all the way through - or at least I don't remember ever doing so. Usually I turn it on when I think they are close to the half-time show and then turn it...
TYOLD Day 32: Food Porn, Famous People, and Face Pleasing
I have three great Differentlies today - one involving a fantastic new restaurant, another involving a famous person, and the third involving what I did to my face. Hmmm, which to start with.... If you live in Los Angeles you must drop whatever you are doing and run,...
Deeper Dives
The Year of Living With Cancer
In 2012, I was diagnosed with Esophageal Cancer. To help myself cope with it, I wrote about it. A lot. And yes, the picture of Angela and Jordan will make sense at some point if you read enough.
The Year of Living Differently
After cancer, I decided to try to mix things up and do something different every single day for a year. Did I make it?
50 for 50 by 50
To celebrate, or perhaps to distract myself from, my impending 50th birthday in 2016, I embarked on a project to give $50 to 50 different charities by the time I turned 50.
Gun Violence
A page full of facts to help you be better informed about the issues surrounding gun violence in the United states.