This past Monday, I had, let’s say, a false alarm. A massive contraction and change in feeling overall that made me think it was time. But an hour later, nothing. A few hours after that, still nothing. I thought it was best to finally pack my bag for the hospital in case I did suddenly, [...]
Since I live in the Los Angeles area, I figured I’d try to get tickets to the Michael Jackson memorial service. I was not selected.
Guess I’ll go to the dentist after all…
We’re in the midst of what’s called “June Gloom” here in southern California - when a thick marine layer floats in from the Pacific and hangs over our heads. When we step out to walk the dog in the mornings, we feel a light mist kissing our cheeks. We know the white hot days of [...]
When the government announced its bailout of AIG I felt a strange, familiar queasiness permeate my body. In the days when I was in the trenches of business and financial journalism, this was the kind of event that would keep me at work for hours on end. AIG is huge. Massive. Had AIG been allowed [...]
Because I telecommute to work, I rarely use my car, so the recent spike in gas prices hasn’t hit me nearly as hard as friends and neighbors who have to travel to an office everyday. Still, filling up the tank on my tiny little Honda has become quite the eye-popping trip. Whereas I used to [...]
Years ago, before Oprah became the deity OPRAH, she told her audience that one way of really knowing how your friends are doing is to peek into their linen closet. She said something to the effect of, if their linens are fraying and thinning, you know things aren’t going as well as they seem. Personally, [...]
On my early morning walk today, I noticed something peculiar. Well, I thought it was peculiar. It’s Independence Day, but I didn’t see many flags in front of people’s houses. We don’t have one (because Wolf has hidden it somewhere in our garage, and if I ask him where it is, he probably won’t remember). [...]
I said last week that I know it’s summer when I see one of these. It’s a Jacaranda tree.
We’ve been setting up a little studio here at the casa de Mari and the Wolf. I got to try out some new audio equipment and iMovie, and here’s my first tiny project.
I see these. More later.
I should have known something was going to go wrong…as my dear friend Charlie used to say, “I sense foul play.”
First it was the owls. Maybe I shouldn’t have said anything in the least bit negative about them. If you recall in my most recent Monday Cookies post I bemoaned the fact that owls, as [...]