Vancouver

Evening mountain glowA sword and one lonely shoeOh, Canada, eh? After several weeks of planning, packing, re-packing, contingency planning, worrying about sword cases, worrying about airports, worrying about trains, worrying about whether I had forgotten something important, and generally behaving exactly like someone about to leave for a week-long trip with a samurai sword, I […]


Now I’m just having fun . . .

Courtesy of ChatGPT, Images tab, and the prompt: “Create a caricature of me based on everything you know about me.” P.S.: I tried – I really, really tried – to get “BASSPORT” to be “PASSPORT” and the 2nd “Compliance” gremlin’s hat to read COMPliance not POMPliance (like its buddy), but no dice. Funnily enough, these […]


I asked ChatGPT to choose my nail polish. H had other plans.

I’m about to leave for Africa, which means my life has entered its sacred pre-trip phase:lists, sub-lists, nested lists under other lists, and a level of logistical intensity that suggests I’m either going on safari with a weight limit . . . or launching a rocket into orbit. So when it came time for my […]