Category: Austin is a good place to live

Navigating The Valley of Death, part I »

I wear my feelings quite clear on my face. A disappointment is sure to reveal itself between the brows, in troubled eyes, in the lack of a pure smile, in hesitant responses to “how’s it going?”

I look back over the past year and wish only that I had written more. Small paragraphs containing the [...]

The Door 64 Tech Fair, Matt Genovese, and a Café Americano please. »

I know this blog is very very late, the event mentioned below took place on April 30th… there is nothing like living in the past!
Last October, or was it November, I found myself alone, curious, and not really scared at an after-hours networking party thrown by one of Austin’s friendliest, most innovative dudes: His [...]

Festival of Woe »

Dame Lucy & I did our first festival last week, and boy did we not know what we were getting into.  We had some major stumbling blocks.
1) We were making iced toddy for the first time and didn’t know what our yield would be.  For the coffee-curious, iced toddy is cold brewed iced coffee which [...]

very isolated chosen person »

I was standing on the porch talking to my Mom on the phone last Wednesday
when she told me she was going to a Seder, which is the Passover dinner.  Imagine my shock!  As a lonely, lonely Jew in Texas, these holidays always get me by surprise.  And that’s the worst thing because Passover is the [...]