House of Balls!

What I love about this city is that you'll never find it all.

There is always some jewel to discover.

A couple of months ago, I found this jewel of a gallery. The artist opens it's doors during strange hours and got his start sculpting bowling balls. Most of his walls are covered in reclaimed material playing with the element of light. No wonder I like it... It's finding things like this that make me appreciate the creative world we live in and I'm fortunate enough to find myself a community that supports it. Take a photo tour with me... better yet, go find all the crazy I didn't capture for yourself.

Holy Moly

I started this blog in November of 2008. With a handful of posts, it mostly sat unread and unwritten for 9 months.

August of last year I had a couple of weeks without internet and a bunch of 'experiences' to write about. So I sat down and decided to invest in this thing a bit.

I missed writing. My college education was writing. I needed to write.

I went hot and heavy for three months. I actually wrote everyday that I was in town.

It was right around that time that I put the visitor ticker on my page.

Today that ticker hit 1000. This post will be my 104th.

If I'm pulling out averages, in the 18 months I have had this thing that puts me at 56 hits a month. Almost two visits a day.

The truth there is I never admited to having this site until that August that I couldn't stop writing. The other truth is that those hits are probably mostly me seeing if my post formatted correctly.

Today I wonder how people keep finding themselves here. I am not that intersting, especially when I am only mustering one post a week....

and how the hell do I only have 4 followers? Own up people! I know you are there.

Ha.

Isn't this boring?

I have so many backstories I just need to get to. Will someone borrow me some time and clear thought so I can make you all giggle a little now and then? Please?

Thanks for reading.

How to cut a mango...

No pun involved in the title. This really is an entry on the best way I have found to cut a mango. Food instruction isn't something usually found in my blog. But a few days ago I promised to give a lesson in mango cutting to a friend and today I just happened to get my knife out and thought it would be a waste of a mango for this promise to go unfulfilled.

To Jamie: How to cut a mango....

The important thing is to leave a little skin on the top and bottom of the mango. Gives you some grabbing points. We all know how slippery these devils can be.

1 - I always work in a bowl rather than a cutting board. First I score along the bottom of the mango. This gives the knife a stopping point when pealing.

2 - I think mangoes are the only time I get out my paring knife. Peal the darn thing!

3 - Notice I still got my non-slip skin spots.

4 - Shave off chunks down to the core. Sometimes this means cutting into and under the top and bottom skin to get all that tangy meat.

5 - The result! Lots of fruit in the bowl and nothing but nut left for the trash.

Note to self: Never try to be a hand model.