Author Archives: rike52

I’ve been e-mailing my friends the following: I’m dragging Kathy to Dee-troit tonight to see Dylan at the Fillmore (yes, we have one in Detroit).  Jakob, that is, with his Wallflowers friends.  Hard to think of them as an oldies group, but it’s been over 25 years since I checked “Bringing Down the Horse” outContinue reading “Dylan”

Hard to believe as I watch temps plunge into the 40s and  snowflakes cast for tomorrow that a week and a half ago we had that warm California sun at our backs as we headed into a week at the beach in La Jolla.  Kathy and I fell in love with that place during myContinue reading “let’s eat home!”

Sure, I’ve liked to drink since age 16, have done it regularly, and maybe stepped it up a bit since COVID like so many others. But when old best friends take notice, and suggest changes, maybe it’s time to pay attention. Eric is almost my size and has a goofy sick sense of humor thatContinue reading “drink, drank, drunk”

I’ve had the joy recently of reopening a relationship with a dear woman who was nurse to my intern at Barnes over 40 years ago. She was married (still is), and thus one of the few St. Louis skirts I didn’t chase. In a recent text exchange, she mentioned how she didn’t like sports veryContinue reading “sports”

It was my dear late Aunt Dorie (1) who first introduced me to the joys of what we now call mid-century modern furniture (2).  Those days, it was called Danish Modern.  Aunt Dorie had a few choice teak pieces (now in my living room) and took me to House of Denmark in Troy to seeContinue reading “guldhøj”

Readers of this blog probably appreciate I’m not above giving shameless plugs to my works in other media.  I suppose this is another.  I suspect I pushed my very first book here 2 years ago, but time has passed and I thought that book needed work, so here it is in its second edition.  FirstContinue reading “new (old) book”

We all love that cuppa joe first thing in the morning, or several, and maybe throughout the day.  That was me when I was working.  But for the past 3 and a half years caffeine has been just a pleasant occasional distraction.  Maybe that job wasn’t so stimulating after all. But nowadays a simple cuppaContinue reading “coffee math”

Is it March already?  Seems like only yesterday that Kathy and I were ushering in the New Year in a basement bar in Edinburgh.  We’d made the trip mainly to take in Hogemany, the Scots’ New Year’s Eve blowout that’s been going on for over 450 years (1).   But as we awaited the trip, JimmyContinue reading “Scottish rites”

Those tiny bubbles sure make a beverage a treat, don’t they?  Carbonation’s a big part of the appeal of many favorites, but you can only drink so much beer, Coke, 7-Up and champagne.  You can even put those bubbles in plain water and make a product.  LaCroix, a brand of the National Beverage Company (didContinue reading “fuzzy water math”