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Some days stick out like a bruised thumb in spite of being otherwise ordinary.
Although come to think of it that particular day was too damn hot even for late June in Sacramento.
Folks here like to chirp “But it’s a dry heat!” and…
There are people, places, things, and hell, even states of mind and heart I’ve tried to hold on to for eternity which may explain why I became a proprietress and peddler of the past.
An antique dealer. A curator and collector of relics. A vintage bon vivant.
Thirty-some-odd years, countless…
Subject: POST-COVID COMMERCIAL EVICTION ON DEL PASO BOULEVARD
Thank you, Mr. or Ms. Esq. for taking the time to consider my Post-Covid commercial eviction case.
I signed a 2-year lease to rent 9,000 sq. ft. of warehouse space on Del Paso Boulevard in January 2019 after a five-alarm fire adjacent…
My friend, Norm Blacksher, a wise Old-Timer who proudly called himself an Oklahoma Okie once told me:
Life is a Three-Act Play with a piss-poor Third Act.
Some statements stick and this was one I’ve mulled on more than one occasion.
Now that I’ve been twisted, shaped, and bent to…
To which I say, Just bite me with that pablum right now, ok?
My neighbor, two houses down from the 3-story walk-up where I live my largely small life on the second floor, is in the process of killing one of my best friends in broad daylight and there isn’t…
Who am I?
How did I get here?
And why should I, much less anyone else for that matter, Give a rip?
So it’s time to go fishing.
I’m fishing for a thread.
Not just any thread.
I’m fishing for one of several colored threads dangling just out of reach…
Happy Groundhog’s Day friends, family, and associates!
Yes! It’s Groundhog’s Day — my personal, all-time favorite national holiday of the year — and I’m feeling chill as opposed to overwhelmedandoverstimulated by the usual toxic vibes that seem to pair with “holidays” like a fine boxed-wine.
And that’s because Groundhog’s Day…
The hospitality industry—restaurants in general and the independent, small business, family-owned and operated ones specifically—are free-falling.
After a tumultuous year of lockdowns, on and off shutdowns, retro-fits; including but not limited to outdoor solutions requiring not just tables and chairs, but heaters and tents in some if not most climes—better…
After a devastating year that began with a statewide lockdown in March, Sacramento’s food and beverage industry have been forced to react and respond to yet another seismic shift on the Valley’s nationally acclaimed Farm to Fork landscape.
Sacramento’s food, beverage, and hospitality small business owners are frustrated, angry, and…
