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When your brother clears out some bushes in your mom’s front yard, and finds beer bottle you and your friends tossed there decades ago… (or): Whoops…

Oh yeah… who remembers the Micky’s Big Mouths?

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My daughter Mollie… and I am only going to give the back story on this once, so read the first post…. part 9…

What is better than exploring the world with your kids? I found one more picture of her after her first taste of beer ever. She didn’t want a second taste. Me, Mollie, and my mom, in Paris. Say: ‘me, Mollie … Continue reading

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My daughter Mollie… and I am only going to give the back story on this once, so read the first post…. part 8…

***Special ‘My mom and Mollie’ edition*** My mom and my daughter, at a train station… somewhere in England. I’m sorry if you are getting sick of these posts, but I am reliving our European adventure of two summers ago, and … Continue reading

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It just occurred to me…

Now that Mollie, our younger daughter, is 18, and my wife says she can appear on the blog, that means I can go back and show old pictures of her… right? What brought this up is that on Facebook, I … Continue reading

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Bar hopping: The final chapter…

Well, there are Big Johnny and I, at the last bar we visited at the end of a very long day in San Francisco. Man, I was pretty toasted by that point. I think, by that point, I had walked … Continue reading

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Bar hopping: In which I explain how a visit to a sixties exhibit at a museum ties in nicely with a long walk interspersed with much beer drinking… part 3…

In spite of the title, I am not really going to explain why I was with Big Johnny, dive-bar hopping through the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco, or who Big Johnny is, or how all this came about. You … Continue reading

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Bar hopping: In which I explain how a visit to a sixties exhibit at a museum ties in nicely with a long walk interspersed with much beer drinking… part 2… ***(Oh, and if you read all the posts about my adventure in San Francisco from the top down, the way the wordpress overlords have it set up, it will make even less sense than my blog usually does)***

The little postscript note in my title brings up an interesting problem we face as bloggers. If you do multiple posts about the same thing, the odds are that people will red them in the wrong order…  Which means that … Continue reading

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Bar hopping: In which I explain how a visit to a sixties exhibit at a museum ties in nicely with a long walk interspersed with much beer drinking… part 1…

Well, some of you may have seen this coming a mile away… which is about how far ‘the Haight’… (as we who grew up the Bay Area call the Haight/Ashbury district in San Francisco)… is from that museum. If you … Continue reading

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The party… the final chapter… in which I meet a flying dog and was accidentally a racist…

That’s me. I’m drunk. I am also waiting for a slice of pizza. It’s late at night, and the night still isn’t over. That’s Big Johnny, the person who was responsible for me being there… both at that pizza place … Continue reading

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The party… part 2… (Or): He is officially old now, even though he is still younger than me…

Yup, Big Johnny turned 50. There he is with his lovely wife, Eva. If you don’t know them, or at least know about them, don’t panic. I will get to all that soon enough… just not today… when my hangover … Continue reading

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