I’m in Vail, Colorado.  For my birthday. Every year I check the schedule, to see if the mountain will remain open until April 22nd.  This year, with Easter being so late, it’s open until the 24th, only the second time in my relationship with Felice. Yes, we’re staying in the condo.  Paid for by Felice’s […]

My mother broke her hip. It wasn’t because she was aged and it gave out, but because the former MD, an anesthesiologist, an eightysomething woman, forgot to put her car in park and it rolled back and hit my mother’s walker and my mother fell and… When I got the news I went numb.  My […]

That’s Blake Edwards.  Who died at the end of last year but didn’t have a public funeral.  Last night’s celebration at the Directors Guild was his official send-off. Funny how you know these people but you don’t.  Like Blake’s wife Julie Andrews.  You’re standing there talking to her and you know her but she doesn’t […]

Is there such a thing as emergency dentistry? So I’m rushing to go to Staples Center, to see Lady GaGa, to experience the hysteria, to drill down to the bottom of popular culture.  And I’m scarfing down some trail mix with Dannon coffee yogurt and… Let’s start at the beginning. Yesterday I went to the […]