I’ve had an iPhone for around three years, which I use about 80% for work activities (email, research on internet, calculations, and sometimes even to make calls). The other 20% of the time, it’s a toy. Before that, I had… Read More ›
Travel
Cold Spring Rain
Something about a damp, drizzly, cold, wet day in the woods makes me feel not depressed, but content. Thick, lush, untamed undergrowth, dark gray skies slashed with tall spare pines, a hundred shades of green jumbled and competing, with little… Read More ›
Having Children for Dinner
I am traveling for a few days, and I have a few thoughts about bringing young children to dinner. For the past three nights I have been at tables with very young children. The ages have ranged from newborns to… Read More ›
Fine Dining in the Oil Field: Panchito’s Burritos
I’ve been traveling to west Texas quite a bit, for my job, and often head straight to the field from the airport. Last year, a friend showed me a hole-in-the-wall burrito shop, Panchito’s Burritos, located in Odessa, Texas. You can… Read More ›
Spring Fever – Paris Style
One thing I dislike about living in New Hampshire is our late Spring. Easter bunnies made out of snow are common. This year has been very mild, but I still miss the cherry blossoms of Washington DC where I was… Read More ›
Crappy Places to be From: Goldsmith Texas
In my glamorous job, I frequently get to travel to rather interesting places (for some definitions of the word “interesting”). For the most part, the great FSM did not put oil and gas in pretty places, which means some of… Read More ›
Fine Dining in Oil Country: Skeptic Alert, or Veggies Can Dissolve Fat Clumps
You can’t make this stuff up, guys. When we ate breakfast at the Main Track Café, that I discussed yesterday, I was so enamored of the menu that I asked Sparkle-Server if I could keep one. The menu was side-barred… Read More ›
Texas Tough
I had never been to Texas. I wasn’t really sure I even wanted to go to Texas. However, that is where my dearest friend Naomi lives. She kept inviting me down, and a girls weekend with some of my skeptic… Read More ›
Fine Dining in Oil Country: Main Track Cafe & Lounge
SKEPTIC ALERT TO FOLLOW! For our last breakfast in Weyburn this trip, our locals advised that we go to the restaurant at the truck stop for breakfast. This place, sitting on the edge of town by the gas station, featured… Read More ›
Friends and Flying Pigs
One of the things I love about my friend Kitty is her eye for detail. When we travel together, her photos are filled with details – a cat sunning in a rustic doorway, a child with a dripping cone –… Read More ›
Two Different Girls 