Carrie asked me to find a different teriyaki recipe, something more authentic than the shopping-mall-food-court teriyaki sauce recipe we have been making.

Ted was a feral cat that lived in the neighborhood.

Dancing the Virginia Reel and building Snowmen in Southern California.

The Blue Café played a significant role in our family history on two occasions.

Same ingredients without the pesky wrapping of the chicken, ham and cheese.

Ray Liotta, Nancy Osuna and Frank

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.