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Smoking
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] My mother and grandmother smoked their cigarettes in a little room off the kitchen we called the back porch. In the company of a washing machine, a dryer, a chest freezer, and a broom closet they sat at...
Water
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] It seems odd that you can live on a peninsula surrounded by water yet run out of the stuff every year just at the busiest tourist time. But, it happened every year in Mendocino when I was running the Sea...
A Modest Proposal For Today
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Based on: A Modest Proposal For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland, from Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick by Jonathan Swift ...
De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum
[Click on Blue links for sources and further information] De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum (Of the Dead say nothing but good) We all know a few jerks. Emilee Hines, Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Washington, D.C., History The evil that men do...
A Puerto Vallarta Story
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] Two of our good friends in Puerto Vallarta are Kevin and Beatriz Simpson who own the folk art gallery Peyote People and the upscale ancestral contemporary art gallery Collectiva. Over the past years...
The Attack of the Fifty Foot Baby
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say,...
Poems – 12
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] This is the twelfth post of poems and napkin art at Think in the Morning. I hope you readers enjoy these as much as we do. The butterscotch pie at Tre Piatti restaurant in Puerto Vallarta is pure...
The Rich Get Richer
[Click on BLUE links for sources and further information] Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, erstwhile Republican now Independent, has an article out today This Tax Bill Is A Trillion-Dollar Blunder. It’s a “must-read” for anyone who cares about our...
Tis The Season
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] It’s a great time for drunks and gluttons. Just a few weeks after gorging on roast turkey, oyster stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole (with cream of mushroom soup and crispy...
Udder Nonsense
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] If you have read any of the posts on this site, you must be aware that Napkin Art adds an interesting historical and artistic dimension and adds immensely to the delight factor, if any is to be...
The Daily Special
[Click on BLUE links for sources or more information) By age 35 I expected to be President, very famous or at least very, very rich. Instead, by 35 I had three sons, a beautiful wife, and a restaurant business where I made great friends. I had...
Poems – 11
This is the eleventh poetry page posted on Think in the Morning. We choose poems we like based only on our own tastes. Each poem is paired with an original piece of napkin art produced at the Sea Gull Cellar Bar in Mendocino, CA from 1977 - 1985. We identify...