Hockey season started a couple of weeks ago. JA bought tix for three to twelve Los Angeles Kings home games. Our seats are right behind the visiting team’s penalty box (Section 111, Row 3). Yeah, JA spent a lot of money. When we found our seats on opening night, LMA took a look around...
It’s Saturday morning and just like every morning I woke up at 5:30am, but since it’s Saturday, I resolved to stay in bed for another couple of hours. The cat, however, lacking a firm concept of days of the week, resolved to get me up at the appointed hour to let him out for...
LMA and I left Long Beach for points north at the end of August (the 23rd through the 31st). We visited Silver Lake in the Sierras for a couple of days (my mom and JA and my brother and his family were there, too), then we drove up to Crescent City where my dad...
A couple of years ago my friend J Scane and I decided we were going to send the new President one letter every week. I was to write them, and J Scane was to make illustrations. After mailing them, we’d upload them to his website. We both voted for Ralph Nader. I wrote the...
Yesterday, on the way to Bixby Village golf course LMA and I drove by the site of the dead rock dove. Three live rock doves were pecking at the asphalt in the middle of the road, none of which seemed to take much notice of us, nor of the mini-van speeding toward us. I...
LMA and I are learning how to play golf. We had our last group lesson the other night, but LMA wants to sign up for private lessons in a few weeks. The callous that had formed on my right ring finger below the first knuckle when we started somehow got torn away — I...
LMA and I went sailing yesterday on our little boat (that ain’t us). J Scane and LV were along too, and since Scane’s more or less a partner in the boat, and a better sailor than LMA or I, he ran the show. We sailed 2 miles or so out past Angel’s Gate (San...