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I’m loving the spider legs on our new fern. Gifted to us from a friend of Dellis. It’s also known as a Rabbit Foot Fern, but we’re leaning into the creepier side of it.

One day ceiling fan install not including patching and painting the drywall around the wall switch.

Don’t let her fool you. She is not friendly.

It was an awesome art weekend for my lovely wife and her critique group. We may do it again for friends and family, but need to recover first. This was a lot of work.

So much yard work this week, but it will make my wife happy to show it off for her artist friends.

Busy day, but I felt like I needed to get out of my comfort zone and support the “No Kings” protests. Felt really strange being a participant after so many years being an observer. Still, it’s like I said, I needed to get out of my comfort zone.

I tend to slack off during the Winter and spend a lot of Spring getting the yard back in shape. Oops. I meant “we” on all of that.

Poetry inspired art exhibit opens on Friday in Redondo Beach ‘Reimagined Poetry Invitational Art Exhibition’ will take place over three weekends around the Redondo Beach Pier.

Yay! The lovely Mrs. Frank made the Daily Breeze as part of a gallery exhibit in Redondo Beach that opened June 6th and continues the following two weekends.

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If you know Hermosa Beach, then you know.

South Gallery is awesome!

Attended a screening of “Murderbot” with a Q&A afterwards featuring Alexander Skarsgard and also some other guys.

I guess I should mention the homeless guy who sort of wandered around us. He didn’t try anything, but it was kind of weird.

Happy Monday. Outside is good. We’re finally getting some sun in the morning and I can stop bundling up for the morning ride.

Hey, little cactus flower! Where did you come from?
It’s so cool when the yard surprises us.

Up early to get a slow bike ride in before the beach fills up.

This is what being the only person of color in the room looks like. No, wait. The video guy is also black. Carl Hiaasen with Dennis Lehane by LiveTalks LA. Don’t worry. I’ll be okay. This is not the first time.

I was early. Waiting to hear from a couple of authors I enjoy reading.

Matinee showing of “Sinners” in 70mm IMAX. Yeah, I have work to do, but there’s always tomorrow.

Hey, Big Easy! Long time, no see. How've you been?

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I’m blogging again. Only now we call it Substack. Check out my latest post and subscribe if you want to have it delivered to your email (I really want to have more than seven subscribers).

I don’t know how often these guys play this corner on Frenchman Street, but we saw them last year in June. It’s awesome every time.

I like shots of bars.

Our favorite buskers.

Get ready for a very powerful sugar rush.

Great food and a mighty fine Old Fashioned. They deserve their reputation.

Back from spending a few days in New Orleans. Had a great time, but it’s pretty difficult to not have a good time in the Big Easy.

It’s an LA thang.

Hey, Barry!

Anybody else get rained on at the LA Times Festival of Books?

At the Festival of Books Spent a rainy Saturday morning walking around the LA Times Festival of Books.

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Still working out the nuances of posting using Substack. I’m up to seven followers (pretty sure one of them is me). My biggest issue is the differences between the desktop and tablet versions of the platform. #festivalofbooks #rain #befrank #writing

An Interesting Life I’m having a normal day.

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Just a Substack post on possibly the biggest story I ever covered when I worked in news.

Okay, I Can Admit It... I kind of don't know what I'm doing and making it up as I go.

New post on Substack!

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Thank you. A little better every day.

In case you’re wondering why I haven’t posted. A week ago I was under the weather and laid out on my couch. Both my pets took advantage of this and spent a majority of my downtime napping along with me. Today I managed to drag myself out for a morning walk along the beach. Harper Lee appreciated it.

I hope everybody is having a blast. I hate missing out on things, but sometimes the timing just doesn't work.