Category: Intro Letter

“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains…” – Diane Ackerman Another recent heat wave… though suffocating in my apartment (understand, SF buildings are not equipped for heat – often no air-conditioning as we don’t usually need it), I had the… Read more →

“Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.” – Al Bernstein I got through May’s SF heat wave (90 degree plus – happens maybe three times a year here), a little sunburned, with happy memories of warm nights at favorite neighborhood spots, on a friends’ deck overlooking the city skyline, or star-gazing on my roof with a great… Read more →

“Spring, an experience in immortality.” – Henry D. Thoreau For me, the pleasures of taste, of sound, of smell… are intensified by Spring’s gentle breezes, its subtle fruits and its glowing sunsets. My Top Tastes of the month: – A brilliant cappuccino (of Blue Bottle ilk) from Four Barrel Coffee – right now, get their coffee in the alley (Caledonia, between 14th &… Read more →

“Reviewing has never struck me as having much to do with assigning scores or handing out demerits.  The reviewer’s job – and pleasure – is akin to any reader’s. It is the pleasure of talk.  If nobody talks about books [or the suject of review], if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation,… Read more →

“The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children…” – John Keats Spring arrives, the rain is pouring more than usual, but green abounds in promising lushness… new things are birthed out of the longest winters. This month in The Established, we’ll explore Dim Sum alternatives to the most popular, overpriced spots.… Read more →

“The trees down the boulevard stand naked in thought. Their abundant summery wordage silenced caught In the grim undertow, naked the trees confront Implacable winters long crossquestioning brunt.” – D.H. Lawrence, Winter in the Boulevard, 1916 February is the month of love…or so they say.  As always, I think it appropriate to celebrate with those you love, whatever month it… Read more →

“To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.” – Jean-Paul Sartre   Imagine what activities you could be doing with your date and they will never have to see viagra on line order it. Surgery is also an option, but is expensive and not always things goes right in a person… Read more →

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! – Charles Dickens A large number of medical organizations possess personal support solutions that supply reasonably priced medicines. Sometimes, viagra online cheap patients… Read more →

Smoke hangs like haze over harvested fields, The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night, Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation: The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listen closer, I find its purpose and place up there toward the November sky. – Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855, I Celebrate… Read more →