It’s Sandy’s birthday today. It’s a Tuesday and we both had work today and will again tomorrow and, we just came off a few days without power or screens. We’re getting over the tech withdrawal symptoms. So we won’t be letting the dogs out tonight, as the saying goes. Plus, we nod off by nine … [read more]
Humor
Time Lapse
Image: Mary Oakey The Boulder Weekly holds an annual 101-word fiction contest. Thousands of entries come in. I made the finalists list a couple times a few years ago. It’s good practice. Here’s a new one, that’s actually not fiction. Time lapse Walker packed for his Monday morning Munich flight by noon Sunday. It was … [read more]
Pardoning Saint Patrick
I’m a fourth generation Paddy. My great-grandparents came here in the last two decades of the nineteenth century, I am told from Cork, Ulster, and maybe some islands near Scotland, through Canada and Boston, then on to Colorado. I don’t feel Irish, nor do I have any particular affinity for Irishness. Or, at least … [read more]
Me and Jeff and Shawn
Me and Jeff and Shawn Geoff O’Keeffe On Friday, April 14, 2000, I was attending a Goldman Sachs conference in Las Vegas at, if I recall, Paris, Paris. The other tacky theme hotels must have been booked. The topic of the conference was multi-channel retail, being the strategy for a big retailer to have a … [read more]
Biscuits and Gravy
My first attempt at Edna Lewis’s biscuit recipe. Biscuits and Gravy -Geoff O’Keeffe The premise of this review is that I regard biscuits and gravy as an indicator dish for the overall quality of a good American breakfast joint, much like the role chiles rellenos plays on a Mexican menu, or Quiche Lorraine in a … [read more]
Hamburger Creed
I’m no gourmet. I grew up on fish sticks for Friday dinners, waffles, pan-fried chicken, creamed peas and potpies. I understand a little about good cuisine, but like with wine, where I am very clear what I prefer but know little about it, I am hopeless when it comes to having the encyclopedic knowledge of … [read more]
