Archive for July, 2013
Lummi Island Wine Tasting July 27 ’13
Last Friday There is no particular reason why last Friday night should have drawn such a blowout crowd, but it did; from opening at 4 o’clock, people just kept arriving! Ryan held down the fort alone in his usual stylish manner, and by the time we came over sometime after 5 the joint was Really […]
Lummi Island Wine Tasting July 19 ’13
Maine We are back from our week in Maine and my 50th HS reunion. It was the first time I have visited my home state as something of a tourist– an odd experience that comes to most of us when the passing of our parents leaves no family “home” to go “home” to. As mentioned […]
Lummi Island Wine Tasting July 13 ’13
Milestones We are currently in Maine for the occasion of my 50th High School reunion in Bangor. This is a curiously sobering experience. More than retiring, more than starting to collect Social Security, and more than turning any particular age, the 50th HS reunion is a curiously poignant icon of aging. I mean, you see […]
Lummi Island Wine Tasting July 6 ’13 4th of July Weekend
CCSVI (Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency) Last Saturday we had a long conversation with visitor Ben Munkres about CCSVI (which stands forChronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency), and its possible role in the development of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The theory is that MS and a number of other chronic debilitative diseases are caused by, or at least made […]
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