The Meaning of Golf Clubs

My Mom used to tell me things as an adult that she would never have told me as a youngster. Mostly these revelations came out of the blue without any logical connection to what we had been talking about or doing. It’s almost as if she had a box of memories stored in her brain … Read more

Great Dates – Ever Had One?

Ever since I recently watched Out Of Africa for the umpteenth time, I’ve been thinking about great dates—in cinema and in real life. The great date in Out of Africa is Denys (Robert Redford) taking Karen (Meryl Streep) on safari. In the middle of the Kenyan highlands, he sets up camp—the requisite tent, along with … Read more

A Thanksgiving Story

Before I started fourth grade, my Mom moved us from Palm Desert back to Garden Grove—same house and same school. But now we had a dog that lived with us instead of my Dad. This was the start of the inane every-other-week-end/six-weeks-in-summer shuffling from house to house routine that kids of divorce must endure. This … Read more