It starts with Aretha Franklin singing Baby I Love You and moves into Badfinger’s Day After Day. It referring to a mix of 194 songs that I put together as a soundtrack to help me write. Technically those songs are closer to the opening than the middle and far from the end, but ten years […]
Archives for June 2017
I Kissed Her- Was It Bad Timing?
It is the Shabbos of my daughter’s Bat Mitzvah and my son goes along with my niece and nephews to open the ark. The youngest leans in, takes a deep sniff and turns to my son, “It smells holy.” I don’t hear this story until the next day but enjoy it so much I tell […]
Clowns & Triggers
The world looks a little bit different after you help your father move all of his medical gear. The old CPAP machine for sleep apnea is old hat and though sleep apnea can be dangerous it doesn’t feel the same as helping set up the portable dialysis paraphernalia. It is a reminder of mortality and […]
More Than California Dreaming
There is just one more night and whatever remains of this day before I need to get serious about packing to return to Texas. Technically I am on vacation but I headed back to the cabana to do a little work so that I am not hit with a tsunami of catch-up work. The voicemail […]
Days Of Uncertainty & Joy
One day I might laugh about this time and tell you how I moved out of a one bedroom apartment into a three bedroom house over a four day period and still had time to fly back to LA for a Bat Mitzvah. I’ll tell you about running three flights of stairs with my arms […]
LeBron The Laker & Other Stories
There are more than a few solid rumors that say LeBron is making plans to leave the cavs and join the Lakers, none of which surprise me. He is a man who is interested in building a legacy and now that he brought one championship to his current team he is going to look hard […]
Don’t Poke The Bear
I cannot confirm nor deny wanting to drop a ring of fire around a few people who chose to poke the bear because they needed to be burned and bitten Nor can I confirm nor deny having tried to send a burning hula hoop to Ex-Lax brownies to said people but I might have laughed […]
The One Sided Conversations Of Blogging
It is just me and Willie again. He is singing The Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning and I am wondering if it is a Scotch, Whiskey or Vodka night. Four hours at urgent care, way too much nonsense everywhere else and a suitcase that won’t pack itself are weighing upon my shoulders. […]