One of my favorite places in California is Sequoia National Park’s Grant Grove area. In spite of it being 255 miles from Redondo Beach, we sometimes visited as often as once a month.

This story felt surreal then and even more so now. 

Nick and my vacations were often impromptu trips.  We didn’t call these spur-of-the-moment trips vacations, we called them adventures.

Malibu has an RV Park?

A few years ago, son Nick retired from the Navy after 3+ four-year tours. But this story is about the sailing class he took when he was about 13 years-old. We had been sailing out of Marina Del Rey for many years on my sister’s Catalina 30 sailboat. In order to keep sailing after she […]

By the time Mom reached her 80th birthday, she was living with my sister Sheila in Texas. 

Skipton is a town in North Yorkshire England. 

Don’t wear a Business Suit when you visit DisneyLand.

Travelling from Jonkoping Sweden to Zug Switzerland.

The police were polite. 

Carrie Lynn said it would be okay if we had his-and-hers cars and jokingly added that I’d need to paint flames on mine so we could tell them apart.

I did not realize a job could be so important, that a job could be such a part of your identity that its loss meant you had nothing left.  But there it was.  Greg was dead.