About a month ago, right around Earth Day (that comes into play very quickly), I got the song “Throwing Stones” by the Grateful Dead stuck in my ear. You can listen to it here. Even though it was written in the 1980’s it still has in its DNA the hippie ethos so often aligned with… Continue reading May 23, 2023

My first bartending job was at a Pizzeria Uno’s on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, directly behind the Museum of Natural History. My apartment at that time was on the Lower East Side, sitting in the shadow of the Williamsburg Bridge. This necessitated taking two different subways to get home. Usually, this wasn’t too… Continue reading May 9, 2023

Before this past weekend, the “worst” road trip I took was a few decades ago, when I drove from Hartford, CT to Raleigh, NC for the weekend. I say “worst” not because of how it turned out, or the level of fun we had, but by ratio of travel time vs. fun time. And when… Continue reading May 2, 2023