Author Archives: canoelover

So a funny thing happened to me today.  Actually, a hilarious thing happened to me today. So I get this email from Outside Magazine: Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:48:22 -0500To: Darren BushSubject: Outside’s Best Companies Hi Darren: As you’ve … Continue reading →

So my friend Jean sent me this awesome book of poems.  Lovely stuff, lovely friend.  I love good poetry.  So does Jean, which is why she’s my friend.  She had it sent from a used book store because it’s out … Continue reading →

I believe that the best way to keep an office efficient is to keep people as uncomfortable as humanly possible.  That’s why four days a week, we’re all dressed in our finest Hickey Freeman suits with Gucci loafers.  Nylons and … Continue reading →

One tends to associate different styles of towns with different regions of Italy.  Tuscany and Umbria have hill towns.  Emilia-Romana has old flat cities with cool Byzantine architecture.  Campania has colorful villages covered with bougainvillea and window boxes of rosmarina … Continue reading →

From the minivan in front of me this afternoon on Monona Drive. Well noted, thank you. Olfactorally submitted,   Canoelover

I love XM Radio. On the way to work I was channel surfing. I got to hear: Hawaiian Wedding – Elvis Sister Christian – Night Ranger Neil Young – Harvest Piano Concerto No. 21, 1st mvmt. – Mozart Don’t Fear … Continue reading →

I looked out the back door at the deck and Brian had built a snowman.  It was perfect snowman snow, so I don’t blame him.  Before too long he had been all dressed up and was ready for action. Scott … Continue reading →

When the average person thinks of Italy they often think of the Big Three:  Rome, Florence, and Venice.  Lots of art, architecture, and museums.  Very few people think of bucolic backwater villages and abandoned stone farm buildings. Sicily is, on … Continue reading →