My favorite Joni Mitchell song is "A Case Of You".  Only a Canadian could come up with such perfect imagery.  You’ll know if you’ve ventured to the Great White North.  You’re driving down the boulevard and you see a cinder block structure, with the words "Beer Store" above the plate glass window.  There’s no euphemism.  […]

Lie to me and tell me everything is all right One of the great things about the iPod is you never know what you’ll hear.  Put it on random and suddenly a favorite track from years ago will fill your brain and for that one special moment you’ll be reminded of who you used to […]

I’m sittin’ in my room, I’m starin’ out the windowAnd I wonder where you’ve gone Normally I go hiking Monday night.  But yesterday we had this rainstorm that not only inundated the mountains, making the trails too slippery to navigate, it came down so hard that my house was surrounded with water, for a while […]

I was inculcated with the idea that anybody could become President from a very young age.  I remember sitting in my first grade classroom trying it on for size.  As we read about JFK in the "Weekly Reader".  That was quite a goal.  I’d have to be one of the best and the brightest.  I […]