Monthly Archives: October 2017

Love the look of Prickly Pear Cactus, even more so than the smell.  But it isn’t just another pretty face (sorry I couldn’t find one in bloom – the flowers that grow from the pads are really are pretty).  This … Continue reading →

It’s like a literary Field of Dreams, this new anthology from the Oliver Sacks Foundation that I blogged about this morning on the professional side, and I’ve been admiring its cover as well as its contents all week.   You … Continue reading →

It was a gorgeous day at Surprise Stadium, an intimate venue to watch a baseball game.  “Cooler” temps today, in the low ’90s. and most of the seats in the shade.  In fact, only the ballplayers and ballplaying statues were … Continue reading →

It’s unusual for Dessert Dogs manager Shawn Williams to have his Phillies prospects in the lineup for  back-to-back games.  Hence prospect Cornelius Randolph who wasn’t in the lineup yesterday was in today, and Edgar Cabral who started yesterday had a … Continue reading →

Mazel Tov Gifts is a Judaica store located next to the Kosher 18 Restaurant in a strip mall off Scottsdale Road, anchored by the Chabad movement.  Miriam and I enjoy spending time browsing there, and invariably I find a book … Continue reading →

It was really hot at the Desert Dogs home game in Glendale today.  How hot was it?  102 degrees on the car thermometer, but it felt like an oven in the sun.  So the announced “crowd” of 207 took cover … Continue reading →

More on Mickey Jannis, from my perspective the feel-good story of the AFL thus far.  Here’s the feature MLB did on the Mets last week, that included a clip on The Mick from his prior AFL stint in 2015: This … Continue reading →

What a pleasant surprise it was to see in the AFL Game Notes that Mickey Jannis is back in the hunt, starting for the Scorpions tonight in their game against the Javelinas!  I blogged about Mickey’s improbable appearance in the … Continue reading →

The other day I blogged about The Happiness Prayer and today I’ll continue the theme by citing another pithy book I packed for the flight to Arizona: Midlife – a Philosophical Guide.  Its author, Kieran Setiya, is a professor of … Continue reading →

Rabbi Evan Moffic, a graduate of Stanford University, and leader of Congregation Solel in Highland Park, Illinois, brings ancient wisdom to life in what he dubs “The Happiness Prayer”.  It may not displace The Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Neibuhr in … Continue reading →