Back in the mid-1970s, when I feared almost everything, we all wanted to be as easy-going and self-assured as Robert Redford.
Month: September 2025
Merciful Outcomes
Fire up a nice cigar, pour a fat glass of Scotch, bake some cookies. It’s fall and there’s a lot of life in these lengthening shadows.
Waiting for the Kids
In a time when our hearts are torn and society seems so mucked up, let’s take the joys where we find them – in the sounds of autumn homecomings, in the sweet slams of those family front doors.
Quiet Kindness
Redford was the movie star of my generation, a product of Santa Monica, burnished by the California sun.
Angels in the Cornfields
Before the ceremony, the air hums a little, as always. My theory: It’s all the missing loved ones fluttering back to Earth to watch. Just a hypothesis crossed with a vibe.
Say Cheese!
There is this reassuring moment when we’re back – Suze, Smartacus and I. We’re on the roof of the Parking Spot garage on Century Boulevard.
Portable Magic
At Target the other day, Smartacus was buying his back-to-school supplies for college: four dozen Calloway golf balls.