We spend every Saturday morning on the patio at Zorro’s Cantina, just a block or so up from the beach. The Zorro’s breakfast menu is terrific. (There’s an off-menu omelet named after me, but that’s another story.) Unfortunately, our usual … Continue reading
Category Archives: Just Good Sense
Over a cup of coffee this morning, I read a short story by Joe Lansdale, one of my favorite authors and a master of East Texas Noir. In the course of the yarn, one of Lansdale’s characters, a good ol’ … Continue reading
You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to know that if your three-year-old boy is waddling around grabbing his crotch, he probably has to pee real bad. Or maybe he’s just a budding porn star. Either way, you’ve gotta pay … Continue reading
Have you seen any of those “tiny house” TV shows? Deb got me watching them, and I’ve gotta admit, it’s fun to see people struggle to downsize their households and squeeze themselves into as little as 200 square feet. The … Continue reading
When I was a kid, the first day of school always — ALWAYS — fell on today, the Tuesday after the Labor Day weekend. Not anymore. I know a lot of kids who started school three weeks ago. A few … Continue reading
You know what the Darwin Awards are, right? They’re given posthumously to folks who meet their maker by their own hand and in the most ridiculous ways. A Darwin double-whammy occurred in Peru on the very same day last week, … Continue reading
Before we had big-budget CGI superhero extravaganzas smacking us from all sides on the Big Screen, there was a little dude on TV named MacGyver. MacGyver was this spy fella who always escaped life-and-death situations in very clever ways. He … Continue reading
You know I hang out at a lot of coffee houses — both Starbucks-type locations and one-of-a-kind mom-and-pop spots. (Hell, I created a whole product wrapped around that fact.) And more than once, I’ve made a barista cry. That’s what … Continue reading
Did a little wine-tasting this weekend. It’s just something we do occasionally, since we live in so-called “wine country” on California’s central coast. But I’m not a wine expert or connoisseur. I’m just a fan. Now, Deb and I have … Continue reading
One of my favorite bedside books is called No Time for Tact: 365 Days of the Wit, Words, and Wisdom of Larry Winget. The book’s kind of a “daily devotional” of great quotes by Winget, a guy you may have … Continue reading
