I had one scoop of mint chocolate chip ice cream today from this very fancy ice-cream store, and it tasted like mint and cream, like the...

Good News We got the ccs denial We'll go back to mcal with the denial So we can get approval Because mcal deferred the original...

Michelangelo unveiled his sculpture David on this day in 1504, and Ernest Hemingway published his novel Old Man and the Sea in 1952 afte...

I love a good fortune -- you know, something about the future and not one of those wise sayings like you are full of integrity and joy, ...

Oliver and I had a wonderful weekend up north. We had a good visit with my sweet Aunt Yvonne who is eighty five years old and very fr...

Oliver and I watched To Catch a Thief  last night. We're visiting my aunt in Los Altos. She has a closet full of videocassetes --...

I went to Henry's back-to-school night and skipped Spanish and Religion classes. I sat in the courtyard in the dark and ate a ...

Be groovy or leave, man. Bob Dylan *** Some of you comment anonymously for really good reasons, and that's f...

I'm over the top grateful for this recognition . Honestly, it seems ridiculous to give me a reward when Heather McHugh and the beaut...

She's sixty years old , darts into and out of the herb shops in Monterey Park, haggling with the shop-owners, gathering bones and fe...

photo via Charleston City Paper That beautiful woman is my friend Alison Piepmeier. I have never met Alison in person, but I've re...

Olympic Blvd. Los Angeles 2014 Virus or no virus, the show must and does go on. I woke, if not refreshed, then certainly feeling...

We're in our separate rooms. I'm lying on the bed, puny and pathetic, my cells distracted by some invader that's made...

Cross your fingers and your toes, praise Jesus or dance naked in the rain.