Surrender To Chance Cold Water Canyon

Okay, first to the disclosure portion of the program. I don’t have a real connection to Surrender to Chance, but as a perk contributors to this blog get a credit for writing which I have used. Hey, I’m poor and… Continue Reading →

Winter Favorites

Well, winter arrived here in the city of the angels in the form of our first big series of rain storms. Rain in the southland is always problematic: being in the worst drought in receded history we obviously need it,… Continue Reading →

Happy, Happy Turkey Day!

(forgive the scheduling issue, all my fault) So I am writing this on Thanksgiving, in the throes of a turkey-induced food coma. I didn’t cook, but I did purchase a dinner that, in the true American Tradition of Gluttony® was… Continue Reading →

The Peripatetic Portia, and Visiting With the Killians

So Hurricane Portia has left the building. I of course mean “hurricane” in the best possible light: anyone who’s met Portia will tell you that it’s impossible not to be swept up into the vortex of fun. I was invited… Continue Reading →

Meeting Up (A Little Off-Topic)

So today once again Los Angeles will be greeting the arrival of the lovely and talented Portia Turbo-Gear. This time Portia is with her partner and a friend. She had sort of made loose plans to get together for dinner… Continue Reading →

Amouage Library Series: Opus VII

Looking through my sample collection I came across a spray sample of Amouage Opus VII that I’d been ignoring for a while. It’s not that I was afraid that I’d hate it; quite the opposite. I was afraid that I’d… Continue Reading →

Out Again

Well I can’t win for losing. The allergies I had last week gave way to the flu this week. Fever, chills, the whole nine yards. Oddly, everything smells heightened: the soup I made smelled like socks, and the Fumerie Turque… Continue Reading →