My Dad went to a routine eye appointment with a complaint of seeing some spots. As a reader who has probably averaged a book and a half a week for the last 80 years – since he learned to read at perhaps age five – the minor vision change was frustrating. I got a call [...]
Mom said yes when I suggested we play hooky from our spring cleaning and hit IKEA for plastic stuff and cinnamon rolls. Since Mom hasn’t died as soon as she thought she would, she has instead decided to put shelves up in her room. This makes sense if a person is planning on staying somewhere [...]
Whitney ran a rock music club on the beach in L.A.. She has an MBA, and is currently reading Hosea. Again. The Bible is a huge disappointment. Not the one that holds treasures for me each time I turn a page. I am referring to the History Channel mini-series from actress Roma Downey of “Touched [...]
Whitney ran a rock music club on the beach in L.A.. She has an MBA, and has family visiting soon. The day before the first day of Spring, Mia laid two eggs. She has no mate in her life, not even the big black crow who visits each morning and waits for Cheerios by where [...]
Whitney ran a rock music club on the beach in L.A.. She has an MBA, and she prays for people. Two weeks ago, Ezzat Atallah was almost the subject of my blog. Now that he is dead, I will write about him. Ezzat, an Egyptian Christian, had been taken into custody at a bookstore across [...]
Whitney ran a rock music venue on the beach in L.A.. She has an MBA and can now find Azerbaijan on a map. A new friend of a friend of mine returned to Azerbaijan yesterday, tying together two events that on the surface had previously appeared to be unrelated: the death of piano virtuoso Van [...]
Whitney ran a rock music venue on the beach in L.A.. She has an MBA, but still might pursue a B.S. in Astronomy. Cydney’s husband Buzz is the last rocket scientist left in our family. Naturally, we knew who to turn to with questions about the meteorite strikes in Russia and the larger asteroid that [...]
Whitney ran a rock music venue on the beach in L.A.. She has an MBA, and has some new friends and some old ones. The last show at the club is done. There were problems, but it could have been much worse. Someone connected with ownership oversold the show. There were angry people outside the [...]
Whitney – until recently – ran a rock music venue on the beach in L.A.. She has an MBA and regretted it once. Things were good until I got the text. I had sent out my ‘Happy New Year’ message to my various circles, including to the people I used to work with at the [...]
Whitney – until recently – ran a rock music venue on the beach in L.A.. She has an MBA and respects Quentin Tarentino and Robert Rodriguez. It was a late Christmas present when I got the call from Dead Ted. He had driven up from San Diego to Santa Monica and was walking the streets [...]
Whitney – until recently – ran a rock music venue on the beach in L.A.. She has an MBA and went to public schools. When she heard about the shootings, she said that she was horrified, but knew that it was inevitable. Shocked, I asked why it had been inevitable. Schools are soft targets, offering [...]
Whitney – until recently – ran a rock music venue on the beach in L.A.. She has an MBA and once cut the record “Sugar Sugar” by the Archies off of a box of Alpha Bits cereal. When I first moved to L.A., I didn’t bring much from my old life. I didn’t want to [...]
Whitney – until recently – ran a rock music venue on the beach in L.A.. She has an MBA and always minds the gap. On the subway from Manhattan to Brooklyn, 67-year-old Ellen Grossman scooted over to make room for a seat for 43-year-old Jay-Z who celebrated his 43rd birthday on December 4th. Her gesture [...]
Whitney – until recently – ran a rock music venue on the beach in L.A.. She has an MBA and is still drowsy from tryptophan. What is the cheapest/safest/surest way to get a buzz? Forget meth, or Jager, or any prescription meds that – though legal – can still make you dead like Michael or [...]
Whitney – until recently – ran a rock music venue on the beach in L.A.. She has an MBA and is enjoying her new life. The best reason to learn a language is not to be able to speak it, but to be able to listen. And being able to listen is the last skill [...]
