This is about fun, food, friends, family and favorites – the silly and the serious. With a menu of tasty thoughts I hope to engage you in conversation about ideas and experiences of interest.

Thus Still Life Cafe is born. Uh, conceived. It remains to be seen if it ‘bares’ value for others or is simply self-indulgence.

When I began writing this web log I wasn’t at all certain I’d have enough ideas and/or material. Well I need not have been concerned as the list of topics to discuss, comment upon and share with you is growing longer. I try to keep things in categories that make it pretty easy for readers to discern. If I have a gripe – I’ll post it in GOOD GRIEF! with an attempt at humor rather than outright ranting. Mostly I want the menu to accommodate a variety of posts about ‘good things’, not necessarily the Martha Stewart kind – but my kind.

So, who in the heck am I? – nobody special. The 5th child, 2nd son and last of Maxine Burke Harding Martin Weatherly’s kids.  Also the tallest. My bio posted on Sizzle on the Grill is a most accurate description of me. My goal in life is simple. Be a good friend and father.

Here at Still Life Cafe I serve as the maitre’d and offer a menu of topics of interest to me – food, politics, art, design, products, music, places, etc. – to share with you. I will also publish just about anything sent to me by someone I know, regardless of the POV it offers. (OK – I will not publish porn or other stuff like that.) So, if you know me, please share your thoughts! I’d love to hear about your favorite recipes, movie,  restaurant and book ‘reviews’, or share your taste in music, art, politics, humor or anything else that strikes your fancy and seems appropriate to this place. And if you don’t know me – perhaps you should!

Of course I always welcome suggestions on how to improve this site, my taste and most of all my manners.

Thanks and Aloha!

Barry ‘CB’ Martin