Suprise Me

Because, really, how many middle-aged couples would be willing to take in a small child and turn their comfortable lifestyle on its head with bottles and baby food and diapers and naps. Read More

The thrill of the hunt, the lure of the new. No, I’m talking about shopping. Read More

Middle School. . . . In our day they called it Junior High School. I don’t know when the name was changed, or why, but in any event, I never went to one. My first school was a K-8, and my second school was a 7-12. My town didn’t have a Junior High at that… Read More

In the early 1970s, I landed back in San Francisco. For three years, me, my partner and her two children had been living a gypsy life, traveling from one collective household to another, from San Francisco to the Colorado Rockies, to western Massachusetts and finally, back to San Francisco. Read all about it in The… Read More

Good films can imitate life so well that we can discern and assess the values they convey. Read More

"Bartender, drinks on the house for the entire castle!" Read More

While I am far from woke, I really want to learn. Read More

Both Night owl and Morning Lover Read More

My family had a rule: No comic books. Read More

  Alright folks, here I am back to remind you that history isn’t always a dusty textbook. Sometimes, it’s a deranged sitcom with a laugh track that keeps getting stuck. Take 1963, for example. A year that went from “Ask not what your country can do for you” to “Hold my coca-cola while I watch… Read More