Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
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Two State Parks and a Red Tailed Hawk
“I do not think it is an overstatement that it appears just as important for California to have Mendocino preserved and guarded against encroachments as it was for Virginia to have Williamsburg restored and protected.” Civil History Chair of the Smithsonian...
Lucy’s CuCu Cabana
[Click on blue links for further information] You already know that Alebrijes Make Me Happy. All of Mexico makes me happy. It's a large country (760,000 square miles) but smaller than the contiguous 48 states of the USA (3 million square miles). Thankfully you...
Think in the Morning, It’s Good For You
Several studies have correlated waking up early with success. Here’s a breakdown of the benefits reaped by early risers. 1. In a 2008 Texas University study, college students who identified themselves as “morning people” earned a full point higher on their...
Keynesian Economics and the Sea Gull
[click on blue links for more information] All you need to know about Keynesian economics can be summed up in one statement: What goes around comes around. Several years ago, I came across a small isolated town and stopped for gas. Being an economist, I...
Special Thanksgiving Napkin Art Edition
I first learned about San Pasqual, patron saint of cooks and shepherds, from my friends Gil and Lucy in Puerto Vallarta where I purchased the wood carving at the top of this post. I will be writing a piece on Gil and Lucy soon. There are many sources online that...
Drunkards, Fools, and the United States of America
Marlene Hall, the previous owner of the Sea Gull Restaurant, once told me that God protects drunkards, fools, and babies. Or, maybe it was my friend Judy Johnson. Actually, I think they’ve both used the phrase in my presence. A little googling revealed that a similar...
We Cracked Pots Have A Sense Of Humor
[click on highlighted links for further information] When everyone is insane, ‘Tis folly to be wise (Paul Samuelson, 1970 Nobel economist rephrasing Thomas Grey) If you can keep you head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you...
Home Cooking
[Click on highlighted links for videos and more information.] In the 70s we had Opal’s Silver Spoon Café on the Lily Tomlin show and Mel’s Diner in ALICE. Today these have morphed into the Food Network. A pinch and a shake are no longer the norm. Recipes are...
Channeling Charles Péguy
There was a man, a Frenchman, you wouldn’t know about him, my child. . .He was a good man, a holy man, and he lived in sin all through his life, because he couldn’t bear the idea that any soul could suffer damnation. . .This man decided that if any soul was going to...
My Week With Pierre Trudeau
NOTE: Click on the highlighted links for sources and further information. Pierre and Justin Trudeau, the father and son Prime Minister team, were blessed with good luck as well as good looks. When Trudeau the elder ran for PM of Canada, Nixon and Humphrey were...
The Wanda Tinasky Affair
There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold; The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did see Was that night on the marge of...
Oliver Sacks in Oaxaca
Written over fifteen years ago, Oliver Sacks’ Oaxaca Journal is still one of the best books for visitors to Oaxaca. I was confused to read that one reviewer thinks that: “Sacks did not go into the depth I might have expected based on the insight he displayed in...