jim owens
Déjà vu all over again. We found ourselves in coastal Oregon around the 4th of July. I think it was my eighth time through the state but that is just a guess. It is some number above six. It all began years ago when our kids were little. Their favorite movie was Free Willy and […]
We’re starting to fall into something of a Spring routine. A little back and forth, with and without dogs, between Park City and southern Nevada. Gardening down there. Family stuff up here. A few small town events. The Boulder City Garden tour. Listening to the first baseball of the true season over the internet. The […]
I have forgotten who said it, I think it was Sartre. That the value of something is best understood only through the loss of it. It brings to mind the song “San Diego Serenade” by Tom Waits and covered by the late Nanci Griffith, Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” and “These are Days” by 10,000 […]
For a Cubs fan the very worst type of Summer involves bullpen issues. When severe, it is simply too painful to watch games literally tossed away at the last possible moment that could easily have been won. Compound this with almost uniform under-performance by the big-time position players that the baseball-bloggers needed so so bad. […]
There is no bar in downtown Las Vegas with the moniker “After the Apocalypse”, yet. There should be. A speakeasy. Below ground. With a thick roof and solid metal doors. The design of the card below just happened. Playing around with AI in illustrator. You turn on your computer in the morning and there is […]