Took the kids to see The Magic Flute at LA Opera on Friday night.  Their first opera experience, and not a bad place to start for kids who are into fantasy stories.  Mozart is, in my opinion, easier to listen to than other possibilities, and the fact that the action opens with the hero being chased by a big ol' snake/monster/dragon kind of thing ( Read more... )

There are days when you just want to sit at the side of the road and cry, friends.  When the head winds are too relentless, the hills too steep, and oh yes, when your fellow human beings are anything but human.  I try so hard to love my neighbor, I honestly do, but after commutes like this one I just sat on the sidewalk in the driveway and had a ( Read more... )

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You ever have one of those days where just everything seems to go wrong?  You take wrong turns into traffic, you drop your cell phone, you can't manage to get from point A to point B in time for the next appointment and everyone, simply everyone in the world is crawling right up under your backside?  People talk to you in perfectly constructed ( Read more... )

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Looking beneath, that seems to be the theme of the day. It's just a little look under the hood, a view of the underbelly from the inside. Yesterday, I completed 44 miles on the week and felt desperate for the spin, so desperate I took a ride despite the fact that I was on a clear liquid fast as part of the prep for the dreaded butt snake today. ( Read more... )

I know I probably shouldn't be sun gushing, when I likely see the sun a heck of a lot more than most people.  It rarely rains here, and when it does rain, the media gets out those Storm Watch banners and the City starts to have evacuations.  People video tape hail so small you can't tell its hail on the film and send it to the TV station...and the ( Read more... )