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 ›
Travel
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 ›
Fine Dining in Oil Country: Detours
The second night in our Quest to Try Every Restaurant in Weyburn, SK During the Coming Year, occurred after a long day of slogging through detailed design drawings with our review team, supplemented by a catered Chinese lunch. One of… Read More ›
Fine Dining in Oil Country: Smitty’s
Smitty’s is a chain restaurant in Canada that is somewhat equivalent to Denny’s in the U.S. The menus are enclosed in plastic and consist of fairly generic North American choices. Since I tend to avoid carbs (my exception is Chunky… Read More ›
Dried and Fried, or, Fine Dining in Oil Country
So I’m spending a a few days outside of lovely Weyburn, Saskatchewan (“the Opportunity City”) doing some work related to the oil business. I’ll be here several times over the next year, so I’ll have the opportunity (there’s that word… Read More ›
Two Different Girls 