Contemplating Life – Past, Present and Future
I'm sitting on a beach contemplating life. My life, as it is now, as it was then, and as it will be someday. …
Read MoreSixty Years of Stories
There Goes That Idea
Been a while, got a lot to share. But first, I have to correct myself on something I wrote back in April. In Chemotherapy is Not as Bad as I Exp…
Read MoreSweet Note From a Fellow Chemo Patient
Compared to the often funerial atmosphere of most chemo rooms, my last treatment felt like being at a party. While I was snoozing there was a change o…
Read MoreChemotherapy is Not as Bad as I Expected
“You’re really looking good,” Billy raved as we huffed and puffed uphill on Heather Street after a walk through the Olympic Village and along the seaw…
Read More2 Parties and a Funeral: Happy Birthday/ RIP Ginny Kane
The plan seemed simple enough: to organize a birthday party for a hundred year-old woman at the farm that was started by her great…
Read MoreHow a Wine Epiphany Showed Me Wine is Not Just For Rich People
Epiphany bottles are just that. Epiphanies. Every serious wine lover has one locked away in his or her mental cellar. It’s t…
Read MoreShooting Covers for Wine Spectator
Back in the early 1990’s I shot covers for Wine Spectator. The relationship started just as I was forming a business relatio…
Read MoreBill and I Get Hitched – Kinda
After four years of dating Bill, and living with him for two, I got the itch to get hitched. I starting talking in vague terms abo…
Read MoreA Brief History of the Kanes and Watsons
My mom, Mary Virginia (Ginny) Watson and my dad, Robert (Bob) Leo Kane were both raised in Michigan. Mom and her brother Norb, wer…
Read MoreGiving Up is Not Hard to Do
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about giving up. No, not in the “good-bye cruel world “ sense, but in the moving on kind of way. Against how the writer…
Pictorial Records of My Travels
Hawaii 2023
USA North Roadtrip 2021
USA Roadtrip 2020
Israel 2016
Ireland 2013
Cuba 2012