Life Style & Travel

UNITED STATES—The Hemingway table often combined both eating and drinking. In his memoir of the Paris years, “A Moveable Feast,” Hemingway writes rhapsodically of eating oysters washed down with wine: “As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste...

Some of the most convenient bird feeders in the garden are some of the many plants we grow. Since so many plants exploit the birds as much as they get exploited by the birds, they naturally produce something that the birds want, when they want it. Right now, meaty seeds cater to migratory birds that need to plump up...

SAN FRANCISCO—Deaf Women United (DWU) will be holding a fundraiser for the DWU Conference in 2015 at Mozzeria in San Francisco on September 29. The event is a private dinning gala and is limited to a party of 12 people. The DWU held an earlier fundraiser on August 23 with an admission cost of $10 that allowed anyone to attend in Fremont....

UNITED STATES—Ready or not, it will be autumn in just a few days. Formal hedges can be shorn one last time if they need it. They will not grow much until spring. Actually, photinia and the various pittosporums should not be shorn much later than now if they exhibit any dieback. Some of the diseases that cause dieback are...

MARINA DEL REY—On October 5, GLAD will be hosting their 12th Annual GLAD Benefit aboard the FantaSea One Yacht. The money raised at the benefit will allow GLAD to continue providing their services to the community.   According to their Facebook page, the “event reaches far and wide to circles of influence in political, business, entertainment and organizational arenas.” The benefit...

UNITED STATES—At different times in his storied life Hemingway had two modes of eating: he ate to live and, other times, he unabashedly lived to eat. When he ate, he ate to live, while at work or in war, food was a means to an end.  “Not something to be fussed over,” writes Redd Griffin a writer from the author’s...

UNITED STATES—With the summer months now behind us, the chance to get outdoors for most of us and to get the body moving is slowly on the decline. So what is one to do to maintain a good physical health? Well, exercise indoors of course. This doesn’t mean you have to go out and purchase a super expensive treadmill, bicycle...

SACRAMENTO—On Thursday, September 18, the California Association of the Deaf will hold the ASL Celebration at the state capital. According to a flyer for the event, the ASL Celebration recognizes the “human right to sign language.”   According to the ASL Celebration website, the event will kick off at 9:00 a.m. with an A.M. Capitol Tour/Greetings to Senators followed by local...

UNITED STATES—The food pyramid group carefully shapes out for Americans how important having a balance of all the food groups to maintain a healthy body. While many may suspect that fruits and veggies are being ignored, I’ve come to discover many people are forgetting about the dairy group. Yeah, dairy! I’ll be the first to admit it, I’m a...

UNITED STATES—What happened with the tomatoes?! In past years, they were inhibited by mild summer weather. This year, they had plenty of warmth, but did not seem to perform much better. Perhaps they wanted more humidity. Now that those that started slowly are starting to produce better, they do not have much time left before warm summer weather gets...