This is college at its most elemental level. “The body, wrote Saul Bellow, “is subject to the forces of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.”
Category: Parents
Trivia, Tidbits and Big Descanso News
L.A. is America’s kitchen. And newspapers are journalism’s slide trombones. Tidbits and trivia on life in Southern California.
The Last Boy of Summer
There are other elegant sports – yachting and honeymooning come to mind. But nothing is as eternally golden as baseball – a sport with its own theme song. A sport that stirs the hearts of poets.
Hooray for L.A.
Musso’s is the gift God gave L.A. to make up for the traffic, the brusqueness, the hype, all the gummy sidewalks.
A Groovy Gala
The New Yorker recently wrote that, over the decades, “your body becomes a sort of historical document.” In that case, my left knee is the Magna Carta.
Family Fun in Palm Springs
Why did I work 45 years if not to be able to pick up a bar tab or two? It’s the ransom you pay for time with your adult kids.
Dearly Beloved…
Marriage means you’ll always have a cake on your birthday, that there’ll always be someone around to help doctor the soup.
One Last Love Story
10 reasons to go on, amid a world of feckless leaders and trembling moons. Because as Montaigne once wrote: "The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness."
On Deck: A Vin Scully Book
Buy this book and spend long spring afternoons on the couch with it. Buy this book and take it to prom.
Spring Break Homecoming
Seems forever since I’ve seen him. When Smartacus steps out of the airport terminal, I still get goose bumps. Parents live for homecomings.