1. Love in the form of Diego Rivera
(LIFE/Joie de Vivre)

Here is Diego waiting for someone to come home. 

2. Things We Do and Say
(EAT/DRINK/Foodie Research)

I love my vineyard. It's a beautiful patch of land outside Santa Rita hills near Buelleton. A great place to invite friends and have weekend picnics. Okay, it's not really my vineyard and those

3. The Littlest Big Man
(LIFE/Latest)

Xola, November 3, 1992 - July 16, 2008 This past week my most joyful and beloved cat named Xola moved on... On Tuesday July 16th at 3:30am I awoke to the sounds of a horrific cat vs.

4. Where do i begin?
(EAT/DRINK/Flavor Spot)

... Sigh. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy living here. But the thing i can't really believe is how much i love my job. I never knew what that was like... i'm serious. I now work in a place that is engag...

5. Catching-Up Before New Years
(LIFE/Joie de Vivre)

...eeks... and end with a short movie of Diva at the Beach. I should also mention that i've fallen in love with Santa Barbara - the great weather, nice beaches, killer restaurants, and endlesss oppo...

6. I'm almost done!
(LIFE/Latest)

...ay when i finally think i can see the minuscule pin-point of light at the end of the tunnel. I've loved living here and have especially enjoyed being in this old old house of mine, though she's ...

7. The Saguaro Moon
(LIFE/Esprit d\'escalier)

...   Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passio...

8. The Big Blue Marble
(LIFE/Joie de Vivre)

...s in all of American society: that human beings, their views and their beliefs and their notions of love and sex and what it means to be alive on this weird blue dot, these things can actually e...

9. Poem for today
(ART/BOOKS/Poetry)

...ears drown, hundreds of miles from land, as ice floes under them melt.   I think of James Lovelock’s face after giving a lecture explaining that fifty years from now most of thi...

10. The early years.
(LIFE/Joie de Vivre)

...Sigh. So i'm not sure where this photo was taken? I think it was in Melbourne Australia. (Eric?) I loved living there, made friends in a heartbeat, and discovered the joy of public transportation...

11. Love is like oxygen (or chocolate covered orange sticks).
(LIFE/Love)

...tte - even more frequently these days since her wedding and subsequent honeymoon. It's a site about her love affair with food, life, and newish husband whom she met through her blog (the whole story i...

12. The God Abandons Anthony
(ART/BOOKS/Poetry)

... segue from the glimmer of what you don't want to forget, into a place where you know you will never. I love it! I am happy to be sailing on a ship that will not capsize anytime soon, all that said, I...

13. He's not naked - only nude;-)
(LIFE/Joie de Vivre)

This is the closest thing to porn you'll ever see on my site - a photograph of my beloved friend Jerry. We decided at 11pm to camp, packed some food and left Del Mar, driving like Themla & Louise

14. What happens in Santa Barbara - stays in Santa Barbara.
(LIFE/Joie de Vivre)

... it involves horses. I rode Hersey who needed encouragement in the form of a stick on the bum. It was a lovely time, gorgeous scenery, beautiful ranch... but after five hours of riding Hersey who dec...

15. Lovely Summertime Harvest
(EAT/DRINK/Today's Menu)

These are my gorgeous tomatos... a pound each at least!

16. Meow Fellow Cat Lovers
(LIFE/Joie de Vivre)

Gorgeous Tom Cat videos: Can't wake up! Crazy Drinker.  

17. There Was A Time
(LIFE/Esprit d\'escalier)

...ell it we can't steal it we can't borrow it and we can't capture it but we can create it love can't bring us happiness but happiness can bring us to love power can't bring us happ...

18. Garden Dog
(APERTURE/Photography)

My first roll of 120 film out of the Yashica is back and... other than this photo of my beloved and adorable and completely self-absorbed dog, they are uninspiring. The colors are off... squelched or

19. Transformation...
(LIFE/Esprit d\'escalier)

We're a bit early for fall, but I read this poem and loved the message - it reminded me of transformation; from caterpillar to butterfly - ourselves becoming free only to become something else. It'

20. Garden of Love
(LIFE/Esprit d\'escalier)

...be in the beauty of it - good or bad. ENVOI Take of me what is not my own my love, my beauty, and my poem - the pain is mine, and mine alone. See how again...

21. Czeslaw Milosz
(ART/BOOKS/Poetry)

Love means to learn to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many. And whoever sees that way heals his heart, Without knowing it, from various i

22. Bangkok 2005
(LIFE/Esprit d\'escalier)

I love this photo taken in April 2005 of my sister Val and i in Thailand. I look like a happy chipmunk jetting through the streets of Bangkok on a Tuk-Tuk.

23. Coffee Roasting
(EAT/DRINK/Foodie Research)

...st my first batch of green beans from Sweet Marias. Anyone who knows me knows that i live to learn and love to try new things all in the name of research and self-sufficiency. I mean why buy it whe...

24. Tiffin Lunch Box
(EAT/DRINK/Foodie Research)

...ked hi and low for something reusable to bring lunch in and found these stainless steal tiffin boxes. I love them! I was inspired to find out more about them after reading how dabbawallas delivery tho...

25. often it is the only
(ART/BOOKS/Poetry)

often it is the only thing between you and impossibility no drink no woman's love no wealth can match it. Nothing can save you except writing. -- Charles Bukows

26. oatmeal, whiskey and yoga
(LIFE/Esprit d\'escalier)

...survive on only oatmeal, whiskey and yoga. three wholly beautiful and sustaining. yes and apples too. i love apples. ...

27. I felt like a lost soul today.
(LIFE/Esprit d\'escalier)

...loud, to wipe the shards of glass from my eyes and pull myself up away from the mistakes, the lapses of love or something like it and into myself. These books spoke to me. they said "pick me up,...

28. The Confirmation
(ART/BOOKS/Poetry)

Yes, yours, my love, is the right human face. I in my mind had waited for this long, Seeing the false and searching for the true, Then found you as a traveller finds a place Of welcome suddenl

29. To Have Without Holding
(ART/BOOKS/Poetry)

...is poem by Marge Piercy.   To Have Without Holding Marge Piercy Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on thei...

30. Words, Wide Night
(ART/BOOKS/Poetry)

...e? I close my eyes and imagine the dark hills I would have to cross to reach you. For I am in love with you and this is what it is like, or what it is like in words. -- CAROL ANN DUFF...

31. The Wreck
(ART/BOOKS/Poetry)

But what lovers we were, what lover, Even when it was all over - the deadweight bull-black wines we swung towards each other rang and rang like bells of blood, our own great hearts. We

32. Valentine
(ART/BOOKS/Poetry)

...u an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. It promises light like the careful undressing of love. Here. It will blind you with tears like a lover. It will make your reflection a ...

33. Solo For Saturday Night Guitar
(ART/BOOKS/Poetry)

Time was. Time is. Time shall be. Man invented time to be used. Love was. Love is. Love shall be. Yet man never invented love A clock wears numbers one to twelve And you look and read its

34. Charles Bukowski
(ART/BOOKS/Poetry)

... the crooked sea I drink deeply and evenly now I drink to paradise and death and the lie of love. ...

35. kat-man-kitty
(LIFE/Wildly Facinating)

... is interesting enough to come up with a new twist on sleeping and begging every year - how can you not love that?! ...

36. Who feeds your soul?
(Archived/LIFE/Esprit d\'escalier)

...open-sourced" their vows ... i find myself preoccupied with spiritual concepts, partnership, love, and how to make a life encompassing all. Imagine being fully alive, awake and ...

37. Sex Will Make You Go Blind
(Archived/LIFE/Daily)

I love love love Morford's column, and once again, today i find myself laughing (which should invariably help my happiness quotient, see below). Apparently Bush's Abstinence Education Program advocate

38. Frida
(Archived/LIFE/Esprit d\'escalier)

PERFECT! I love the flowers and leaves. If i could go back it time, it would be here to this cafe, hopefully reading something interesting to Frida… and smoking;-)

39. Let's Get Lost
(Archived/FILM+TV/Film)

I LOVE Chet Baker. Not sure if anyone knows this or even remotely cares but Chet did a documentary in the late 80’s titled, Let’s Get Lost . Tragically flavored grainy film… al

40. Billy the Backyard Bug
(Archived/LIFE/Wildly Facinating)

I love this little guy and if the truth be told - i took way too many photos of him or her. It was impossible to resist! He appeared during last weekends planting and repot