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Category: Millennials

Location, Location, Location.

Location, Location, Location.

I liked Gladstone’s. No one could flub a table reservation quite like they could, and the food seemed double-fried, as if it hopped from one boiling vat of oil into another. But didn’t you love the foil swans?

Posted on September 9, 2023September 8, 2023 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Gin, Millennials, Parents, Road trips, Uncategorized13 Comments

Coming Home

Coming Home

The recent rains have greened the lawns and plumped the soccer fields. By all accounts, it’s going to be an especially great fall.

Posted on September 6, 2023September 6, 2023 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Millennials, Parents, Road trips, Uncategorized, weddings, White Fang11 Comments

Cheese Curds and Lighthouses

Cheese Curds and Lighthouses

My summer vacation: Visited a bunch of lighthouses. Ate Jamaican food. Gave away a daughter...Just the usual.

Posted on August 30, 2023August 29, 2023 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Gin, Millennials, Parents, Road trips, Uncategorized, weddings17 Comments

A Poignant Pause

A Poignant Pause

Smartacus has been whitening his teeth, as per the bride’s orders, and Catty Cakes is practicing being the flower girl, walking around the house tossing scrap-paper blossoms high into the air.

Posted on August 19, 2023August 15, 2023 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Millennials, Parents, Uncategorized, weddings9 Comments

White Fang Sings Sinatra

White Fang Sings Sinatra

Honestly, you can’t chase an honest moment. Somehow, they just ambush you. And sometimes, as per this singing dog, we’re at the mercy of our quivering moods.

Posted on August 12, 2023August 11, 2023 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Gin, Millennials, Parents, Road trips, Uncategorized, weddings, White Fang12 Comments

You Eat One Silly Shoe…

You Eat One Silly Shoe…

The suburbs are full of guys like us -- undersized men with tweed skin and receding hairlines, gazing up at the sky, crying: “Why me, God? Why me?”

Posted on August 9, 2023August 8, 2023 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Millennials, Parents, Road trips, Uncategorized, weddings10 Comments

Chomp, Chomp, Chomp

Chomp, Chomp, Chomp

“I am looped in the loops of her hair,” as Yeats put it a trillion years ago.

Posted on July 26, 2023July 25, 2023 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Gin, Millennials, Parents, Uncategorized18 Comments

What are Those?

What are Those?

There’s this terrific new device for filling water balloons. Must’ve been invented by a dairy farmer inspired by multiple teats.

Posted on July 22, 2023July 22, 2023 by chriserskinelaPosted in Food, Gin, Millennials, Parents, Uncategorized, White Fang24 Comments

Kiss Me Like You Mean It

Kiss Me Like You Mean It

More and more, I tell friends, “Aren’t you glad you grew up when we did – the movies, the music, the cheap six-packs?”

Posted on July 19, 2023July 18, 2023 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Millennials, Parents, Uncategorized, White Fang16 Comments

Summer Love

Summer Love

“Put your lips to the world, and live your life,” in the words of poet Mary Oliver.

Posted on July 5, 2023July 3, 2023 by chriserskinelaPosted in Food, Gin, Millennials, Uncategorized24 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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