Surprisingly, I haven’t expressed gratitude for any phone app since I began this exercise. This makes me wonder about how we or I value the utility and pleasure the devices hold. One thing I’m sure of is that I play a heckuva lot more piano because of an app called Chordify. When you search and…
Month: March 2021
03/16/2021: holiday anticipation
When Matteo asked and was told what we were going to do tomorrow for St. Patrick’s day, he was disappointed to learn that it wasn’t a school or work holiday, and that it was going to be mostly business-as-usual. He loves pre-school, but also loves his time at home and our weekend/holiday activities. I didn’t…
03/15/2021: John Prine
Somewhere in a crawl space in Vermont is a journal that I kept in 2000/2001 when I lived in Galway, Ireland. I didn’t write regularly, so the entries are mostly the highlights of the year—experiences I’d want my grandkids to know about. One such highlight was the night I was invited a defunct pub a…
03/12/2021: stories of humility
Today, I got a ping from a singer-songwriter I support on Patreon. The update from Patreon was to tell his supporters that he’d had a podcast conversation with another singer-songwriter of his ilk and that he’d cross-posted the audio to his own page. One thing the two rockers have in common is that they’re the…
03/11/2021: comfort food
I am grateful for food, in general. To have enough food for me and my family, to have the luxury of considering food preparation an outlet of creativity and flavor exploration, and on occasion, to spurge and enjoy the gut-bombing comfort-food experience that San Leandro institution Harry’s Hoffbrau provides. At Harry’s, just down the street,…