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Category: Millennials

The Cosmos in a Cup

The Cosmos in a Cup

I’m really hoping JPL might hire me as its resident poet, where I might knit together space travel, technology, distant nebulae, and Shakespeare’s best sonnets.

Posted on January 25, 2023January 24, 2023 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Happy Hour Hiking Club, Millennials, Parents, Road trips, Uncategorized16 Comments

A Cozy Contentment

A Cozy Contentment

When you achieve hygge (pronounced hoo-ga), you’ve found a cozy contentment in life’s simple pleasures: friends, family, warm blankets, candlelight.

Posted on January 21, 2023January 20, 2023 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Father's Day, Food, Gin, Millennials, Parents, Uncategorized11 Comments

What a Year It’s Been

What a Year It’s Been

My dream workout? You dart from one slot machine to the next. When you finish, Dolly Parton brings you a shrimp cocktail.

Posted on January 18, 2023January 17, 2023 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Happy Hour Hiking Club, Millennials, Parents, Uncategorized, weddings18 Comments

A Beer With Jimmy Buffett

A Beer With Jimmy Buffett

In mid-January, “even the moon shines with only half a heart,” as Jane Kenyon put it (read her if you get the chance)

Posted on January 14, 2023January 14, 2023 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Gin, Millennials, Parents, Uncategorized, White Fang16 Comments

Cotton in the Canyons

Cotton in the Canyons

January is made for old Hobbits like me. There is rain in the hills, cotton in the canyons. It’s a good month for bulky sweaters…throaty old singers…snoring dogs.

Posted on January 4, 2023January 3, 2023 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Gin, Happy Hour Hiking Club, Millennials, Parents, Uncategorized, White Fang16 Comments

Christmas Tree Spoons

Christmas Tree Spoons

My buddy turned the tree trunk into a series of wooden spoons that commemorate my grandbaby’s first Christmas.

Posted on December 31, 2022December 30, 2022 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Millennials, Parents, Uncategorized20 Comments

Everything Is Sticky

Everything Is Sticky

Candles have melted into the woodwork. The place is still littered with half-bottles of Cab. Our living room looks like the set of a Noel Coward play.

Posted on December 28, 2022December 27, 2022 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Gin, Millennials, Parents, Uncategorized20 Comments

To the Naughty…to the Nice

To the Naughty…to the Nice

Merry Christmas if words are your wrapping paper. Merry Christmas if “Chestnuts” stirs your soul.

Posted on December 24, 2022December 23, 2022 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Gin, Millennials, Parents, Uncategorized23 Comments

The Leaning Tower of Christmas

The Leaning Tower of Christmas

Our new Christmas tree ($7,000) sits in a corner of the den, listing 12 degrees starboard, as if whipped by a holiday storm.

Posted on December 17, 2022December 16, 2022 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Millennials, Parents, Uncategorized21 Comments

Savor Every Moment

Savor Every Moment

Funny how Americans set up a holiday defined by gifts, promote it with all sorts of gooey Proustian moments, then tear it down piece by piece.

Posted on December 10, 2022December 9, 2022 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Gin, Millennials, Parents, Uncategorized28 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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