FCK
Posted By : Mitch TobolIn the warm embrace of Key West's sunlit grace, Fred, at eighty-two, stands in time's embrace. A decade's journey, with each year a marker, Mile 82, a testament, his harbor. Happy Birthday Fred :-) The photo
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Mile Marker
Posted By : Fred KleinTomorrow is my birthday and over the last 10 years I have developed a tradition of memorializing it with a photo standing next to the applicable highway mile marker. We "Snow Bird" in Key West which is the southern most point in the continental United States and US Highway 1 begins there at mile marker Zero. Each year we venture up US 1 to the …
The Key Bridge
Posted By : Benjamin GeizhalsThe tragic accident at the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore is sending shock waves through the country and, in addition to the loss of life, will be felt for many years to come.For me, news of the accident has a very personal side. I don’t want to speak badly of a bridge - especially after it has been knocked down and people are lost as a resu …
Good Furniture
Posted By : Shawn BernabeuI never thought about it but when it comes time to get rid of furniture I learned the last few weeks its not so easy. We have had some really nice furniture in the living room and the second living room for many years. Its nice, high quality stuff, well made, expensive. But now we got some new furniture. What do you do with the old stuff. We put i …
Family
Posted By : Nancy SchessAnyone who knows me at all, knows how important family is in my world. It is not just about those in my immediate circle. I appreciate all family – mine and everyone else’s too. I also appreciate being a student of family. I am always taken with how our ancestors came to be together from generations before. I will tell a story – and one that …
Facial Recognition
Posted By : Rona GuraI am, admittedly, horrible with remembering people’s names and faces. There have been a countless number of times wherein someone will say hello to me, by name, and I have no idea who the person is. My husband and I actually have it “down to a system.” If someone says hello to me and I do not introduce them to my husband he is well aware that I p …
Home
Posted By : Corey BearakA few weeks back I updated one of my playlists with a Traffic song -- Many A Mile to Freedom -- that played on "my" AppleMusic radio station while Shelly and I took a drive to the "mall." When I opened the "Playlists" folder on my MacBook I found an unfinished one (from the summer of 2022); a list of songs but no links to YouTube; I also found i n …
Try this...
Posted By : Mitch TobolAs spring approaches, many of you might be looking at your grills wondering what you might be cooking this year. For me, I'm a year-round griller/smoker but the better weather allows me to smoke longer with more consistency, not always having to tend to the fire. I was asked last night for my recipe for smoking baby back ribs. So here it is (d …
Puppies
Posted By : Fred KleinI am enamored by the word Puppy (and puppies too)! It is such a positive, loving, warm word, as in "Puppy Love" and all things sweet and adorable ❤️ By strict definition a Puppy is a young (less than 1 year) dog. Yet in my mind our Charcoal (an 11 year old Schnoodle pictured) is still a puppy and, yes, I am still in puppy love with her. She is swee …
Lord Byron
Posted By : Benjamin GeizhalsOne of our favorite restaurants is Ada’s on the River in Alexandria, Virginia. It is named and themed after Ada Lovelace, known for her revolutionary impact on mathematics and computing in the early nineteenth century. She is also referred to as the first computer hacker.My favorite cocktail at Ada’s was the Lord Byron, appropriately named after Ad …
Vacay stress
Posted By : Crysti FarraIf you are like me (and most of the self employed working world) you both look forward to and somewhat dread vacation time. Why? Because you work like a crazy person before vacation so you can enjoy your time away, knowing when you return you will just have to "rinse and repeat"! We were away for 2 weeks. i spent the first couple of days acclimati …
Off Off Off and More Off Broadway
Posted By : Nancy SchessAnd fantastic! We are great fans of local theatre. Frankly, we are great fans of theatre anywhere. Make it a musical, and we are in heaven. I can pretty much guarantee that we are the singing and swaying couple at most musicals. Recently we went to see A Chorus Line at The Argyle Theatre in Babylon, Long Island. What a wonderful performance. …
An Act of Kindness
Posted By : Rona GuraRecently my family, consisting of eight adults and two very young children took a trip to Costa Rica together. On the way to Costa Rica, we had a two-hour layover in Miami. Unfortunately, the first flight left New York over an hour late, leaving us very little time—less than 45 minutes-- to get our large party through the Miami airport to our secon …
Access restored
Posted By : Corey BearakTwo weeks ago yesterday on my way back from bringing in dinner, I notice fallen tree branches on my sidewalk. Blocking it. I moved them against the tree pit and which extends about 12 feet. The larger of the two fallen branch still block access from the curb/street as it extends about 20 feet. Shelly took this picture and I submitted it as p …
The Bear
Posted By : Mitch TobolIs anyone else watching this on Hulu? It's a tragic comedy based in Chicago. I think this is a breakthrough series, similar to "Breaking Bad," that will change how series are made. It centers around a family in Boston and starts at a specific point in time, but goes into the past, filling out reasons for relationships through the exploration of t …