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on July 11, 2025

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Crabcakes on the Griddle

Mojitos

Crabcakes.

Watermelon, mint, Feta Cheese and roasted corn salad with Pomegranate Vinaigrette.

Have a good evening.

Summer dinner

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The "Kid" and the Pianist

Nice...but this is.....well.... It just is....amazing.

Stained Glass - a color for everyone It is most certainly known that our eyes have lenses to focus the light and rods and cones on the retina to actually do the "seeing". Each of these millions of receptors has a responsibility for color. Some of us are color blind, meaning that we don't have enough of a certain mix of rods or cones and there is always a philosophical discussion about "is my 'blue' the same as your blue"? Perhaps the enchantment of stained glass is that our eye can catch our favorite color no matter who we are as there is something there for everyone. Here is Feynman the physicist talking about the wonders of it: There is an old saying that goes something like "in order to see something, you must look directly at it". Obvious and true. I think of churches with the magnificent stained glass behind the altar (where we are supposed to focus our attention) and the ones along side, to catch the sunlight and bath the ...

Pete Rose

I published this a decade ago. Mr. Rose died today. "You don't have to be an old-time baseballer to recognize this fellow. He has or had more hits in the major leagues than any play ever and that alone is saying something. He went to Western Hills HS in Cincinnati and my brother went to Colerain HS and they played each other during that time as they (my brother and Pete) were the same age almost exactly and had similar "careers" in high school in attendance only. My brother joined the DeMolay and into the same chapter as Pete did. Today is the day old Pete went to prison for tax evasion for gambling winnings and failure to report them to the IRS. That was 20 years ago give or take. The feds never nailed him for gambling winnings during his time in baseball when he bet regularly - even on his own team - and eventually got pretty much "persona non grata" as a result. Fifteen years ago I was in Santa Monica and one of my accounts was Western Auto/Sears. We ha...

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