at affordable prices) A very good Carribean place – A Taste of the Islands run by a couple from Guyana. Great jerk chicken and even better oxtails! They also have very friendly customers who usually strike up a conversation...

Sundays only. I’m not sure if other leagues will be starting or if playoffs are on more than Sundays. Only way to find out is to have a conversation with a vendor. As an aside, how many of us go back far enough to remember...

candles or flowers. Sometime having a serving cart close at hand can help with clutter. It avoids the disruption of having guests jumping up and down from the table to refill their plates. That breaks the flow of conversation and...

is happening. Big empty lawns, green grass, nobody to be seen. Organized and clean. The car lineup is another feat to behold. 5 cars long going into Mexico, 250 cars long going into the US. 30 seconds later across the other side...

menu prices. I am a criminal law attorney, so I’m not conversant in contracts, common law, or the Uniform Commercial Code. But it seems to my elementary legal analysis that when a price for a dish is specified on a menu (or...

Thanks, but we found that our home could hold just so many folk. I think that had we added only one more, it would have slid off the mountain into the arroyo. At least, we now know the ultimate capacity! Also, I have to add that...

descriptions of the hamburger, pizza, and meatloaf spend their words trying to be clever with unusual but unenlightening comparisons ("an aggressive spice mix that has all the refinement of a lawn statue of Michelangelo’s David...

the risk. I’m not sure if she complains less after a beer or two but I know it’s easier for me to take. She is mature enough to have some knowledge of herself and even (her saving grace) some humor too. A few years...

’s into wine, with whom I’m due for a deep conversation, sit in the “library”, order a nice bottle of wine, order the coddled egg followed by the veal, and take our time, without much interruption or interaction from the wait...

dedicated to lawns (not even including golf courses), with their massive water, fertilizer and upkeep requirements.

could mow that section of lawn. It was spectacularly pleasant when it was blooming in spring. It made the whole house smell good until the lilacs bloomed.

extremity. A run of the mill music afficionado will have a collection that includes the seminal works in a variety of genres and will be able to converse convincingly on many of them. A “serious” listener, on the other...

Brinkley’s? I always knew it as a biker bar, second-hand from conversations with bikers.

partners father’s birthday last week (most definitely an event where I was not part of the decision making) and the place was packed with what must have been the entire membership for the local lawn bowls club. The people I...

the coaster sticking to it and dropping in my lap or on the floor, and it’s small enough I have to pull my attention away from my conversation or the party and “target shoot” the glass to the coaster when I set...