Random Past Posts
Clovis: Seeking my Inner Cave Man? How big a nerd do you have to be to spend your birthday poking around a couple of obscure museums and an archaeological site in rural New Mexico? Apparently, finding the bones or fossils of a (“wooly”) Mammoth in North America is More...
Pooram Gajmela: An Indian Elephant Walk There’s a Hindu parable about a group of blind men who encounter an elephant for the first time. They can touch only a small part of the elephant, so they have a tough time imagining what the larger ‘whole’ More...
Chester and the Unbearable Burden My nephew Tyler’s first semi-professional big-city play opened this weekend in Chicago, so my sister, my mom and I made the trip to clap, laugh and hug. The play was a spoof of Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. More...
Full-Scale Retreat (Santa Barbara 2012) I have been with the same law firm – Gibbs & Bruns, LLP -- my entire career. A big tradition of the firm is its annual “retreat,” in which all the lawyers and their spouses/dates go somewhere cool for More...
Cartagena: Caribbean, Colonial Colombia The movie “Romancing the Stone” was set in and around Cartagena, Colombia. Viewers were introduced to a tropical country full of emeralds and bad guys. Another lasting impression: Michael Douglas taught America to mispronounce "Cartagena" – putting a "NYuh" sound More...