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Month: September 2021

The College Boy

The College Boy

We parents are a hot mess. Wobbly. Heart-sick. I suppose our empty-nesting anxiety is a measure of our love and devotion.

Posted on September 29, 2021September 28, 2021 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Millennials, Parents, Road trips, Uncategorized, White Fang17 Comments

The Dorm Dropoff

The Dorm Dropoff

Smartacus has landed in this Utopia of green and yellow and orange. He’s the last of his friends to leave for college, so deep into September that the trees are turning.

Posted on September 25, 2021 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Parents, Road trips, Uncategorized20 Comments

A Day of Wine and Roses

A Day of Wine and Roses

A wedding damps our cynicism, lights some inner circuit, the kind we had as kids and then lost.

Posted on September 22, 2021September 20, 2021 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Gin, Millennials, Parents, Road trips, Uncategorized, weddings9 Comments

Click. Submit. Gone.

Click. Submit. Gone.

White Fang will wait at the kitchen door, expecting us to call her into the backseat, so she can come along for the ride.

Posted on September 18, 2021September 17, 2021 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Parents, Road trips, Uncategorized, White Fang15 Comments

Scions and Super Kale

Scions and Super Kale

Did you say “over?” ... Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

Posted on September 15, 2021September 14, 2021 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Millennials, Parents, Uncategorized9 Comments

This Little Dress

This Little Dress

Posh’s wedding dress has been in a box in the basement for almost 40 years, getting dry, getting brittle.

Posted on September 11, 2021September 10, 2021 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Parents, Uncategorized, weddings24 Comments

Divas and dorm rooms

Divas and dorm rooms

I will let Smartacus go the same way the New England Patriots released Cam Newton: reluctantly and with a heavy heart.

Posted on September 8, 2021September 7, 2021 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Millennials, Parents, Uncategorized, White Fang6 Comments

Meet Scampi the Bear

Meet Scampi the Bear

I went to sort it out, rounded the corner and saw him: the bear who came for lunch.

Posted on September 4, 2021September 3, 2021 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Parents, Uncategorized, White Fang8 Comments

Bang a Gong

Bang a Gong

A Chardonnay Mom works a tailgate party the way the Pope works Easter.

Posted on September 1, 2021August 31, 2021 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Gin, Parents, Uncategorized8 Comments

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As his 30-year run at the Los Angeles Times comes to a close, Chris Erskine is making sure the adventures won’t end. He’ll be here to help you laugh, cry and sigh.

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