Musings on Dance, Food, Geek Stuff
A few of the many folks I’m thankful are part of my life, on this day of thanksgiving: My boss Barry: When you offered me a job at Global Kids more than three years ago, you must have seen something in me that I didn’t see. Under your astute, mindful, and sensitive leadership I’ve grown…
It's slowly been floating around my social networks that I'm planning to move back to Cali in early 2011, after my original post about this in August. I truly appreciate everyone's concern and helpfulness through this complicated process. So I thought I should update you all on my thought processes and plans so far. It's…
So I've been alluding to some major life changes on the horizon. It's time to come clean: Sometime in early 2011 I'm moving back to the San Francisco Bay Area. It's something I have been pondering for the past year or so. Over there I've got a wonderful (an enormous) extended family that I feel…
Being among several people in Herrang who are doing really interesting, creative things with their lives has got my brain spinning. Over the past six months or so, I've been thinking about a major life shift. As I scheme about this next phase of my life, this is a good time to think about how…
Yesterday I began celebrating my birthday doing several of my favorite things around the city that I love so much. It began with delicious coffee and croissants from Joyce Bakeshop on Vanderbilt Avenue. It's a great neighborhood bakery that always tempts on the way to the subway to work. Their full-bodied and rich Stumptown coffee…
I had a really awesome Saturday in Brooklyn, so thought I would list some of the tiny examples of cool things that happened: Yoga Virgin No More A friend of mine invited me to go with her to a free yoga class to start the day. I learned that the Lululemon yoga clothing store on…
Today, after several years of trying to postpone it, I finally got started with the scary dental implant procedure that I've been needing to get for awhile. It was quite the experience involving a powerful anaesthetic, the oral surgeon, two assistants, and even a representative of the company that manufactures the special implant I was…
I haven't been to my doctor since I turned 40, so I went in for a check-up this month. I got the results of my blood work yesterday. My refined and gentle Caribbean doctor Robinson told me the good news: I'm in great shape. Sugar levels: normal (!); cholesterol: normal; blood pressure: very good. Whew!…
It doesn't look like this Facebook thingee is going away anytime soon, so might as well jump on the bandwagon with a Facebook Fan Page. If you like what you read here, please fan Rikomatic.com by clicking on this image on the left column. For great justice.
I'm taking a potent and costly cocktail of medications for my asthma this Spring, due to the unusually high pollen counts. I've never spent this much to breathe. But it's still better than the alternative.