Recently Bentley, Butterfly’s beloved 19 year old Mazda pickup, had to go in for a check-up due to some cranky noises, boisterous smoke and iffy handling. We kept our fingers crossed for a good prognosis.
Turns out, the news wasn’t very good. The recommended procedure was very costly and in the long term wasn’t guaranteed to [...]
Throw out your hands!!
Stick out your tush!!
Hands on your hips
Give them a push!!
You’ll be surprised
You’re doing the French Mistake!!
VOILA!!
Encore! Buddy Bizarre Encore!
I went to the Leonard Cohen concert in Dallas yesterday. It was amazing and I was so grateful to be able to experience it. He is such a master of words and images.
What I didn’t see at the concert was a bunch of dancers, multiple costume changes, wardrobe malfunctions, hyper-sexualization, over-the-top pyrotechnics, lip-syncing or blatantly [...]
I heard of a man
who says words so beautifully
that if he only speaks their name
women give themselves to him.
If I am dumb beside your body
while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips,
it is because I hear a man climb stairs and clear his throat outside the door.
- Leonard Cohen
“Let Us Compare Mythologies”
As Dr. Derman put it in his book “My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance,” “In physics there may one day be a Theory of Everything; in finance and the social sciences, you’re lucky if there is a useable theory of anything.”
via New York Times
Apologies. Upon my return there was some corporate upheaval and many personal adjustments… (why is it so quiet and where did all the monkeys go and why can’t my body process all this processed food?) anywho….tale number one, in no particular order…
How we lost all of our luggage
So, shortly into the trip around 26 [...]
