Suprise Me

Everything will be okay. Learning from the young and sharing what we know. Read More

This was a sporty Italian that a 20-something beach-blond working at a Santa Monica tech start-up could LOVE. Read More

The one letter I get every year, without fail, is from my longtime friend Jan. Read More

My mother always had a fondness for the scroll of hand-painted figures, dressed in traditional Chinese clothes, carrying produce or hawking other wares.  They were framed in pieces and hung on the wall along with other mementoes from her time in Peking (now Beijing) in the late 1940’s.  She lived in a neighborhood of classic… Read More

Look What They’re Done to Your Pear, Milton Glaser! Lynn Truss who wrote Eats,  Shoots and Leaves: the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation  is a woman after my own heart.   She wishes for a ‘grammar police force’  that would hunt down and arrest merchants with ungrammatical signs on their storefronts and others who abuse the… Read More

(Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve.  But I am the opposite of a stage magician.  He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth.  I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion”)  ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie   The Sisters Remember   My sister’s… Read More

Sometimes a guy just needs his big sister (although he doesn't always want her to know it!) Read More

Windows fogged, bad shocks rocking, breathing like final breaths on a battlefield, bucket seats belong on kayaks, Danny Kaye got rich and nobody knew what he looked like. Read More

I really should, at the end of this Retrospect enterprise, tell the story of meeting John and Patti. So much good has come in my life as a direct result of sitting down, in about the fourth pew from the front of the church, about three seats in from the left-hand aisle, next to a… Read More

Experiences in volunteering in, especially in youth soccer and Kiwanis. Read More