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Plaza Fail

[sigh]  You don’t have to be an urban planner, or a designer, or an architect, or have any interest in how built environments improve our lives.  You just have to want to go up stairs and GET somewhere.  Let’s look

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Parent/Normal Person: The Dividing Line

Parents aren’t normal people.  Normal people can enjoy simple things.  Parents worry and ruin EVERYTHING.  Don’t believe me?  Let’s go for a walk with Number Two, a calm three year-old boy.  Well…calm for three.  Oh look, a fountain in a

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Adonis

He’s strong and golden, a god among men, a lover among gods.  The Festival of Adonis was celebrated by women sowing seeds of wheat and barley, so it’s an appropriate name for a beer.  And Adonis was worshiped by girls

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Providing Food and Drink

In the earliest days there were creatures around a fire and someone’s job was to keep the food and drink coming.  I trace a hairline in my genetics back to that first server.  Despite all the other advances in my

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Creepy Dolls

Who is ready for some scary dolls?  Had bad dreams as a kid? No?  Well, you will after you see these “beauties”.  Found in Old Town Sacramento these dolls are either part of a historic display or are motionless during

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Portraits and Pints

CH did her first portrait of me, one that required posing and time and deliberate work.  This was her first drawing that wasn’t a stylized representation (eyes, mouth, hair) but a recreation of what she saw when she looked at

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Card Hospital

Is it a real hospital made of cards?  Is it the hospital of a town called Card?  No.  It is a hospital for sick and injured playing cards.  I’ve said it before, there is not limit to the creativity of

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Sometimes They Are Good

Here’s how parenting goes:  there’s always a fire somewhere.  Either it’s coals under tinder, ready to explode, or you’re throwing handfuls of water on a Viking pyre.  Either way you feel you can never completely relax.  And here’s the other

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Never Give Up

Sometimes you give up too early.  I’ve written about beers that didn’t work when I thought they would be great, and others that rose from the ashes to be wonderful.  Last night I went out to the beer fridge int he

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Holiday Battle Rage!

Who thought it was a good idea to sequester children in a small house, set their constitutions alight with sweets, then have them rip into piles of presents like hyenas going after a water buffalo?  Christmas is madness, a ready-made

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