The Life in My Years

An anthology of life

Warning: Graphic and disturbing content. Nick Fuentes posed the word problem on a podcast in 2019. “If I take one hour to cook a batch of cookies and Cookie Monster has fifteen ovens working 24 hours a day for five years, how long does it take Cookie Monster to make six million batches of cookies?” …

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January 15, 2025 for Pete’s sakeA mild oath of exasperation, annoyance, frustration, anger, or surprise. If you’d watched the Senate confirmation hearing of Pete Hegseth and all you saw were the questioning Senators, while the nominee was sequestered behind a screen, you wouldn’t have been faulted for thinking that two nominees were behind that screen. …

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“What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States. Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy. They will be remembered for their …

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The year 2024 marked a change in this site, as I veered away from photo blogs. It wasn’t so much that I set the camera aside and lost interest in photography. It was more a function of WordPress affordability and not wanting to shell out the $$$ to support photo blogs. It was also a …

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“Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.”~ Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly Kraków. It’s old. Fourth century old. Put in American perspective, because for Americans it’s always about America, Krakow was the capital of Poland five centuries before a European landed in what would later be the United …

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Banner photo: Barcelona, after the rain. May, 2023 I walk the streets. Aimlessly. Desperately. I’m looking for everything – and – nothing really. Oh, but there is that one magnificent place, or colorful stroll, or enduring taste that I have to experience just one final time. Is there something that I missed? Of course there …

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“No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler. The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it.”~ William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A …

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Warning: Rough language ahead. After my recent post, I decided I needed some time away. I was poised to crack open the bottle of Polish vodka that I brought from Krakow for my son and to listen to hours of blues but I thought better of it. So I buried myself in a good book …

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Welcome back my friends to the show that never endsWe’re so glad you could attend,come inside, come insideThere behind a glass stands a real blade of grassBe careful as you pass, move along, move along* *Karn Evil 9.Keith Emerson, Greg Lake, Peter Sinfield. A forecast of sunny and bright weather belies my mood this morning. …

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16, October, 2024Munich has been dank and gloomy throughout our visit. It’s the risk the traveler runs when choosing to vacation in autumn. It’s part of the trade off; you’ll take dodging raindrops in exchange for dodging the hordes of travelers. The irony of being a traveler and wanting to avoid the hordes of my …

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