Choices
Now that I'm unemployed I have realized that I have a million or more choices in how I can fill my days. Had I not chosen my current profession I wonder how my life would have been different. Being home the last few days made it clear to me there is no lack of options and the world is my oyster so to speak.
Perhaps I shall become a sea captain. I love the ocean, grew up around boats and am quite the fisher woman. D could be my co-captain and The Beast could navigate for us, up at the front, ears flapping in the salty breeze. Our boat would be called The Wee Three. We could live off the...
For my friend Matt
- Who is going on his own pilgrimage on Thursday.
May you have warm words on a cold evening,
A full moon on a dark night,
And the road downhill all the way to your door.
Surrealism
(written last Saturday night)
Knuckleheads is in an old part of town near the riverfront, next to the old train yard. There were rows of tiny little wooden houses with rusting fences and crumbling porches in the neighborhood that surrounds the place, then the huge train yard with its abandoned freight cars and now silent old trains. I imagined this was a booming little neighborhood once where this bar was where everyone came after work was done.
There were no streetlights there in that forgotten little aged neighborhood and for a while the only light we...
Saturday stuff
Friday night dinner out
Dinner at The Copa room- voted best Italian in KC for 2009. Tucked away in a little strip shopping center it appears to have once been two store fronts. Divided into two large sections, one with bar dining and the other a larger area with tables and booths. The decor was pleasant enough considering its in a shopping center but it was clear that people came for the food and the place was packed.
We started with "Nani's garlic cheese bread" that was crisp fresh house made bread rubbed with garlic and topped with the most wonderful gooey...
