Davis Life Magazine

Hi.  I’m Walking Bob, and I’ve already shared my attraction to historic cemeteries in my November 12, 2010 “Meet Me at the Cemetery” in Davis Life Magazine.  Today I want to share information about what I thought was a South Davis cemetery when I first encountered it a couple of years ago.  It turns out [...]

A couple of years ago I got a last minute request from a friend of mine on a Wednesday afternoon.  He called and said, “I play on a slow-pitch softball team in Davis and we could use an extra player this season – interested?”  I hadn’t played softball in years but had in the past [...]

Despite my years of high end professional cooking, I still love the simplest activities the best—shaping dough, cutting fruit, making soup, and cleaning vegetables.  I love the meditative quality of these tasks, and the feeling of handling the raw, fresh, and therefore most pure elements of dishes, and then seeing them celebrated in finished form.  [...]

I thought that I could rise above Davis’s famous springtime allergies, but last weekend I was brought back down to earth by itchy eyes, a runny nose, and my personal record for number of sneezes in a five minute period. Granted, I did spend Saturday morning with my head stuck in citrus trees all over [...]

Hi.  I’m Walking Bob, and I hadn’t worn a jacket during Picnic in the Park on Wednesday, so I decided it would be a good time to get inside and enjoy the displays at the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame on 3rd and D.  The first good news was that I could still enjoy Papa [...]