Uneasy Rhetoric

To atone for my less-than-stellar showing during bicycle commute month ( rode 94 of a pledged 100 miles, and most of those miles were on two consecutive weekend pleasure rides), I am determined to commute by bike every day this week. Having made this decision, and told others about it, I am struck by [...]

My wife is a smart woman. We don’t have an herb garden of our own, but some friends have too many to use by themselves, so they gave some to us. More than we could use fresh. My wife decided to dry them by hanging them from the ceiling in our laundry [...]

Off topic, but I’m a big fan on the TV show House. I’ve yet to figure out why I am so into a show about a man who embodies pretty much every trait I hate in a supervisor — I could never work for the guy and I feel for the other doctors. [...]

Graswich’s column in the Bee today opens with a vignette about Washington Elementary School at 18th and F. “It’s a real downtown public school,” he says, and points to the fact that they can walk for field trips (yes!) and that VIPs are always visiting.
In addition, Graswich postulates that Washington Elementary could see its [...]