A Day in the Life

The Blandness of Winter and How Beer Saved the World

January 30, 2011

Those who say they love the change of the seasons are idiots – in my humble view So let’s see, it has been a tumultuous two weeks, thus no recent posts. The middle of last week I went in for my first ever stress test, as I wanted to take advantage of my client’s fitness [...]

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Mikey’s Ocean – Forward to the Past, Part II

January 3, 2011

Recovered from my mom’s house (she saved everything), my view of the ocean at age seven (thanks Jacques Cousteau) I recall finding this in my mom’s bedroom built-in cabinets, a trove of all things saved, with my sister Kathi, when we were preparing to put the house up for sale. It’s about 3 foot X [...]

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Can’t be in the Caribbean? Well eat as they do in the Caribbean!

December 28, 2010

Caribbean Chicken Kebabs with Lime-Cayenne Butter Washington DC and Piney Point were spared the brunt of the first major East Coast winter storm. I won’t even bother to shovel, as the forecast for the coming days is mostly sunny and maybe even 50 degrees F on New Year’s Day! Yet as with most of Europe [...]

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Moving on Up – Out of the Philadelphia Hole-in-the-Wall

December 12, 2010

Christmas Elephants for my Korean buddy Jay Hawk – he’s only 2 1/2 years old and loves Disney Cars and now Elephants It has been a busy week for me, as I decided that my little hole-in-the-wall studio apartment near the airport in Philly was not a place I wanted to spend the winter. It was too [...]

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Autumn in Piney Point

November 14, 2010

The watermen are well respected here I don’t know about you, but I like autumn. It’s about perfect here for this time of year  -  high 60′s and sunny. In St. Mary’s County, there seems a synergy between the watermen and the farmers As always, it”s great being home again. But what makes life magical is maintaining those [...]

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