Welcome Back

February 8, 2020.  That’s what the admissions counselor at Pierce College said to me yesterday. Pierce College is a junior college in Woodland Hills, a city on the west end of the Valley. I’ve passed[…]

Congratulations, Billie

January 26, 2020 — I don’t have network TV, so this afternoon into the evening, I kept doing little searches to find out what’s going on with the Grammy’s. My girl, Lana Del Rey, was[…]

Life in the Quiet

January 19, 2020 – First of all, can the year please be 20120? I really need that extra “1”. I can’t stop typing it. My brain knows it’s 2020, but I’m so used to typing[…]

Happy End of the Decade

December 15, 2019 – My goodness, it’s only nine days until Christmas. And the super strange thing, it’s only 16 days until the end of this decade! I find this one – the start of[…]

Young At Heart

December 8, 2019 – This week I heard a new song. It’s by an artist none of you are following, Billie Eilish — the 17-year-old who burst onto the scene this year, garnering award after[…]

Happy Thanksgiving

November 24, 2019 – I was tasked with the assignment to get sister something she was not able to get in Dallas. It took me three trips, and the thing isn’t all that relevant, but[…]

Christmas Commercials

November 17, 2019 – Most years I’m annoyed by the earliness of Christmas displays; after Thanksgiving, that was when Christmas appeared when I was a kid. And like all things, when I was a kid[…]

Surprising Simplicity

October 26, 2019 – Okay, I’m back. It has been a nice little time off; I took from Saturday through Wednesday, straight, without work, except for the Los Angeles County property tax auction (no, I[…]