40 Years Ago, I Left My Heart Somewhere
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI received my absentee ballot today, and since my last US address was in San Francisco, that’s where it was sent from. As I scrolled down the list of other candidates aside from the presidential ones (amazing there are so many “third parties”), the only familiar name to me was Nancy Pelosi running for about […]
Has It Really Been 20 Years?
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedYes it has, though I didn’t know that I was going to actually be leaving the country of my birth only three years later. It was in August, 2000 when I made my first flight from LA to UK, though what I was hoping for then was to establish an extra base out of which […]
Testing, Testing
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedA couple months ago, I was talking to my brother in Oakland about our comparative states of affairs, and the fact that he’s a doctor made me ask him if he encountered many a COVID-19 patient, even though he’s a psychiatrist. He said that not only had he not dealt with anyone suffering from this […]
50 Years Ago Today – Building a Career
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedOn June 15, 1970, I left my parents’ home in Redlands, California, to pursue a very uncertain future, with the only certainty being that there was no future in Redlands except for constant fights with my dad. At 6:30 that morning as I was preparing to drive up to San Francisco, my dad got up […]
The Long Road Back to Normalcy
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedActually, with the few restrictions that are being lifted as of today, my life doesn’t change that radically. For the past two months, I’ve been going for a walk almost every day, meeting up with my girlfriend in her backyard for tea and/or snacks every few days, and shopping at the supermarket once or twice […]
Six Weeks Gone, Maybe Another Six (or maybe 60) To Go
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedThe first few weeks of this lockdown were fraught with inconveniences, mostly having to do with safety and avoiding contact with others. It was both a plus and a minus that up until this week, the weather in London has been almost summer-like with only one or two days of rain. Maggie and I could […]
Doing Nothing is OK
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedOur community choir (where Maggie and I met five years ago) has a communication line on WhatsApp where people are sharing photos and thoughts, or just saying hello. Since we all suddenly have lots of time to fill, there seems to be this need in some to keep busy. Maggie commented on that notion a […]
View From The Bunker
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIt was a nice day today…..so I sat inside and watched it! That’s a line from a comic named Ollie Joe Prater, who was known for his excesses of all vices, adding obesity to his mix. When he died aged 43 in 1991, he weighed over 500 pounds (about 35 stone for the Brit readers). […]
I’m Still Healthy, I Think
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI haven’t written anything of substance for a while, and maybe some of that has to do with feeling that my only forum has been the rapidly-becoming-antiquated Facebook, where my ideas please a small following. My ego gets deflated when someone can post, “I’ve gotten a well paying gig,” and get about 100 times the […]
A Tale of Two Countries
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedLast week, I was at the local Tesco supermarket picking up a few odds and ends, but noticed both the produce and the meat sections were near empty. My first thought was this had something to do with Brexit, and our future ex-trade partners were giving us a dose of what to expect for the […]
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