I’m anxious about going to Chile. Felice always believes she’s going to forget how to ski.  If we don’t go for a couple of months, she gets nervous.  That all her progress is going to disappear.  And after lamenting this on the phone between our two trips to Mammoth in June, I opined we could […]

L.A. isn’t much different from Havana.  It’s a veritable car MUSEUM! Now the reason is different.  There’s no economic embargo.  No need to hold together antiques with baling wire.  Rather, the dry air and the absence of road salt serve to hermetically seal automobiles.  Well, not exactly, but let’s just say cars LAST! It’s weird […]

I didn’t think I needed to see "An Inconvenient Truth".  But then it was in excess of 110 degrees in the Valley and Felice’s air conditioning couldn’t break 84 and I wanted a respite from the HEAT! It’s been kind of scary in Los Angeles the past couple of days.  Kind of like that "Twilight […]

Felice said she’d only seen her father cry once.  In the funeral home, in front of her grandfather’s casket. We spent the afternoon at the Plant.  The multiplex on the site where they used to make Camaros.  We saw "Cars". Maybe I went because it’s the Apple religion, but the sheer creativity was awe-inspiring.  The […]