
The Vegas strip is stunning. It’s a living four dimensional collage. Click to zoom. I just learned how to put zoom-able pictures in my posts. And I made the medium size larger for those of you with slower machines and the wait for zoom too long. Jim was pretty sneaky. He knew if he said [...]
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Tags: Bally's, Bellagio, LasVegas, Travel

It’s the food that’s so sexy at Avanti. All the locals know about the Quiche. If you don’t get there early, forget it, it’s gone. The rest of the menu is fabulous so it’s not as though you will be disappointed if you’re forced to order something else. There were nine of us, the Russians, [...]
Tags: chocolate pot de creme, santa cruz

My youngest sister describes our childhood as “Little Women” meets “Lord of the Flies.” If you haven’t read either book, think of spending your early childhood years with a happy cocker spaniel and your later childhood years with a weird and mean-spirited pit bull. My father was an alcoholic or rather, he grew into his [...]
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Tags: alcoholism, Connecticut, kids

Life on the farm had turned gloomy with its own dark Bronte periods. My mother was saddled with a gaggle of drunks since my father and both of his parents lived on the farm and they were all into the drink: or in the patois of the Boomer generation, substance abusers. So there we were, [...]
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Tags: alcoholism, Connecticut, footnotes, kids