RastaRobert

It all seemed to turn around after I met Bob Marley. The day was kind of sour, but he said something to me I won’t soon forget. “Will you roll this joint for me?” I couldn’t believe it at first, but then I watched his fingers fumbling with the paper. Bright green stuff peppered the …

The Great International Baking Show

  It was a beautiful misty day in the U.K. The morning rain was getting lighter and keeping the air moist. “Misting” as we say back where I’m from. I had landed a spot on The Great International Baking Show, a pilot episode of a new program, so I was in the tent with my …

Saturday Morning Cartoon Time

When you’re  a child, time is divided into categories: breakfast time, school, recess, dinner time, bed time. Time is this nebulous concept, because there seems to be no standard for the divisions. It’s only when we learn about hours, minutes, etc. that we start to develop a sense of length in time. There’s time enough …

Love Is A Sandwich

Don’t quote me on this, but I’ve heard that within the Japanese language there is no word for love. They have words for respect and admiration and even extreme like, but no word with a direct literal meaning of love. This is interesting to me (and you, my one Japanese reader), because we know that …

Living Healthy While Killing The Neighbors

  This is my house, where I live. I don’t have diabetes, but the children in the neighborhood do. As you can see, someone stole my welcome mat. If I ever find out who did it, they’re going to meet the tiny flying products of my shotgun. I make my own shells, and I lace …