Coming soon… Everyone, I’m opening a restaurant. Yes, my retirement plan has turned into a mid-life crisis and I will be opening a brewpub in La Mesa. Over the next weeks you’ll see more information, teasers, and calls for…
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Fourpenny House is Coming
Posted in Baking, Brewing, Events Tagged with: baking, brewing, brewpub, Fourpenny House, restaurant
Last of Us Cosplay – Ellie outfit
The final chapter in making a Joel and Ellie costume pair for ComicCon 2015: Ellie. Unfortunately my daughter wasn’t around to show off the clothes personally but you can see how it all came together. I recommend cleaning out your…
Posted in Events, San Diego Tagged with: CH, cosplay, costumes, ellie, joel, last of us, naughty dog
San Diego ComicCon 2015
Let’s plunge into the world of imagination. Everything in ComicCon comes from people sitting and dreaming about what could be: spaceships, talking kittens, killer robots, zombies, ten-story gorillas, warlocks, battle pigs, fairies. Entering this world as Ellie and Joel, my…
Posted in Events, San Diego, Uncategorized Tagged with: clicker, ComicCon, cosplay, costumes, ellie, Furiosa, Hagrid, joel, joel and ellie, minion, san diego, San Diego ComicCon 2015, the last of us, Vamplets, Waldo, zombie
Birth, Life, Death, and a Curtsey
Sometimes you get to see an entire life cycle, to feel as old as a mountain as forests rise and fall at your toes. At our house this meant watching a pair of red house finches build a nest under…
Oh Gee, Where’ve I been?
G is for go go go. Sometimes you have to step away from your surroundings to know where you are. How can we stretch out this metaphor? Climb a tree to see the forest? Take off your glasses to see?…
What Not to Do At a Railroad Crossing
Here’s a little tidbit about car and train safety: don’t drive onto tracks if you aren’t prepared to get off them when the time (i.e. a giant train) comes along. No, this isn’t a first-person cautionary tale about Uncle F@*k-Up,…
Posted in Events, San Diego Tagged with: barriers, car safety, crash, idiots, traffic engineers, train, trolley
A Winter Play
Let’s start with a confusing image and work towards the inescapable conclusion. There’s an animatronic dog wrapped in tin foil, cotton balls strewn about, and a dog with angel wings. Got it yet? Me neither, let’s keep going. …
Posted in Events, Parenting Tagged with: CH, child harbat, hello kitty, performance art, plays, theater
Little Girls and Tea Parties
Where does it come from, the compelling urge for young girls to act as Victorian social hosts? Child Harbat hasn’t seen Downtown Abbey yet she adores a china tea set she got for Christmas and has hosted several soirees at…
Number Two is Two
My son is two years old or, in the jaw-clenching vernacular of uber-parents, he’s twenty-four months old. Before having kids I vowed only to count a child’s age in months until they were old enough to count it in years. …
Ape Orphan Annie
What’s the best Halloween costume? One that comes together at the last minute. This year I put on a djellabah and skullcap I bought in Egypt and called myself a pilgrim, a hajji. Total costume planning and dressing time: 90…
