Life, One Sip at a Time ©2021 R.G. Ryan Classic cars of all shapes, colors and vintage lined the street along with hundreds of appreciative strollers drinking in the lines and shapes of automotive history. The Beach Boys cover band across the way pounded out the hits as onions, sweet relish and chilidogs saturated the … Continue reading Coyote Brothers

Life, One Sip at a Time The Regular ©2021 R.G. Ryan She sat across the restaurant from us. A senior lady of some years, alone at a table for four, her electric wheelchair parked within easy reach. Her clothing seemed to have been selected by virtue of expedience or comfort rather than to meet any … Continue reading The Regular

Life, One Sip at a Time Ocean Beach, for the uninitiated, is a sleepy little bohemian community that, by all appearances, has been forgotten by time. Either that or it exists in an alternate universe accessible from Interstate 8 and Sunset Cliffs Blvd. Which, come to think of it, may not be far from the … Continue reading You Have to Dig for It

Life, One Sip at a Time Over there on the wall of my favorite coffee shoop hangs a black and white photograph. I stare at it nearly every time I’m there. Today I find my attention rivited. I can’t help it, for within its faded depths I began to see a story unfolding.   Three … Continue reading Every Picture Tells a Story

Interdependence Day 6:24 AM. It would appear that "June gloom" is going to stick around for a while longer here on the coast of somewhere beautiful. There's a 5 mph breeze blowing out of the Southwest. Independence Day and my local coffee shop is surprisingly busy yet missing the typical morning demographic of overly stressed and … Continue reading Interdependence Day

THE CORONA CHRONICLES Day 50 Writing from the bunker in Ocean Beach I swear I’m not making this up. So, I was in the kitchen pursuing my version of cooking, which mainly consists of heating stuff up, when I couldn’t find the sea salt. I said, “Babe, did you move the sea salt?” “No,” came … Continue reading The Corona Chronicles Remix

Life One Sip at a Time I used to see him almost every day at the coffee shop, and then the pandemic hit, and, well, you know. A tallish, sophisticated looking middle-aged man with his gray hair cut stylishly. He would always sit at a table over in the corner and "hold court." I say that … Continue reading As Good as it Gets

It was a Friday morning. I was driving through the Midway District of San Diego on my way home after a trip to the local carwash where the employees had done a passable job of scraping the grime from my car after a recent road trip. I feel I need to pause and describe the … Continue reading If Despair Had a Face

So, apparently, if you are a professional soccer player you can just randomly lie down right in the middle of your job and people will rush over and rub your legs. Why is this provision not in my contract? Come on somebody.

Have you ever been walking by a mirror and caught a random glimpse of yourself out of the corner of your eye and were startled by what you see? Anyone? Just me? Okay then. Well, let me tell you, it happened to me just yesterday. I was walking from my home studio into the kitchen … Continue reading Shadowcasters