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 12: What the Hell is Rummikub?
At about 8:30pm tonight, I realized that I hadn't done my "new thing" for the day. I was at my friend Maureen's house and she very graciously agreed to allow me to wandering around, looking at things until we finally settled up a game that I had never played called...
TYOLD Day 11: The Great Wall of LA
I have lived in Los Angeles for nearly 30 years and I know nothing about the city's history. Or it least that's the way it seems after a visit to the Great Wall of LA, a half-mile long mural that depicts the city's past from prehistoric days through 1984. I didn't...
TYOLD Day 10: Mixing It Up
I was a bartender for a while back in the early 1990s. It was at a little bar in The Valley called The Apache that was very popular at that time. The main bar, up at the front of the club, was where the hot bartenders worked; you know, the ones that would go...
TYOLD Day 9: Say Cheese(cake)
As I have whined about in past posts and endlessly in my day-to-day life, food continues to be a challenge for me. I often don't feel like eating and when I do it often makes me feel lousy. Nausea and other unpleasantness are frequent companions. The good news is...
TYOLD Day 8: Tricky
In the more than 16 years I have been writing about Las Vegas, I have seen every single magic trick, ever. The big ones, the small ones, the good ones, the bad ones, the brainy ones, the stupid ones... I've seen them all. Or at least it feels like it. I have seen...
TYOLD Day 7: Luck Be a Lady, Tonight
I'm not sure what made me think of today's TYOLD item. After all, I tried my luck at the ponies this past weekend and didn't pick a single winner so why I would think that scratch off lottery tickets would be any better is beyond me, but that's what popped into my...
TYOLD Day 6: West Winging It
I think the biggest challenge of The Year of Living Dangerously is going to be finding stuff that I can do during the work week. Although I would certainly like to take several hours off and go explore some museum I've never been to or learn Mandarin, I have a...
TYOLD Day 5: A Horse is a Horse of Course, Of Course
I have gambled. A lot. On just about every game imaginable. If it's in a Las Vegas casino or you can wager on it from a Las Vegas casino, I have probably played it and probably lost money on it. Don't get me wrong, I have won money as well. This last week when I was...
TYOLD Day 4: Here’s the Story…
...of a lovely lady Who was bringing up three very lovely girls. All of them had hair of gold, like their mother, The youngest one in curls. Here's the store, of a man named Brady, Who was busy with three boys of his own, They were four men, living all together, Yet...
TYOLD Day 3: Walking in LA
I have lived in Los Angeles for nearly 30 years - longer than I lived anywhere else - and so my Midwestern upbringing has ceded ground to Angeleno traits in a variety of different ways. I work out with a personal trainer; I say soda instead of pop; and I drive...
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.