May 26

2018
A walk up the hill
2017
Late afternoon in
Bucolic Marin County:
I score truffle Brie.
2015
An early birthday
Celebration at El Meze:
Great food and friendship.
2014
The golden air called
And I walked down the hill and
Talked to an old friend.
2010
What is it about
Philosophy that makes one
Want to slit one's wrists?
“Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways” Stephen Vincent Benet

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