It is with great personal disappointment that I must recognize my contribution to your discomfort this week. Tempting fate, I casually remarked on Monday at what a pleasant summer this had been. For the first time in five years I didn’t have to swealter through a triple-digit heat wave. I’m sorry that the rest of you […]

Read More To the Residents of Los Angeles County

Today Little Red painted a picture to give to his new teacher. He also drew a picture to give to his new friend that he will make in class on Monday. Today Boy Blue started sucking his thumb.

Read More Progression and Regression

Somewhere along the timeline of the past ten months I changed.  I didn’t notice it because I was distracted by all the things that needed my attention, but it was probably exactly those things that changed me.  I thought that I was mostly keeping things together, but the other day as I walked to the […]

Read More The Old Me

March 19 “Mummy, I was in Salt Lake City when I was born. Then I crawled into Los Angeles and that is the city where I am now.” (note: he has never even been to Utah, but that’s where his friends move when they leave California.  He was born in Glendale.) March 31 “Robin Hood […]

Read More Red’s Head

More posts. I promise. I have a lot to say, it’s just that turning on the computer is the best way to incite a reenactment of Lord of the Flies.

Read More Coming Soon

Don’t tell me there isn’t a problem with healthcare in the United States. (Now I know you’ve heard me rant about healthcare before, but I promise you this particular story comes from a new perspective and illustrates yet another aspect of our current crisis.) Once I reached the point where I had done all I […]

Read More The True Face of the Healthcare Crisis