The recent rains have greened the lawns and plumped the soccer fields. By all accounts, it’s going to be an especially great fall.
Category: Road trips
Cheese Curds and Lighthouses
My summer vacation: Visited a bunch of lighthouses. Ate Jamaican food. Gave away a daughter...Just the usual.
The Princess Bride
Wow, this wedding. The flower girl is only 2, and already Pixar has taught her how to deal with princess brides. Tenderly, if you can. Like they are made of vellum and fog.
The Wedding Recap
Read a full report of the Chicago wedding in our print reports (Outlook, Glendale News-Press, Park La Brea News, etc.), or in Saturday's post right here.
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.
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?”
The Boys of Summer
“You’re Taylor Swift,” she explained the other day. “You pressure wash your brain directly into the universe.” Poor universe.
A Moody, Untrampled Place
We may as well be in the Hamptons with Scott and Zelda. By the way, what’s summer without a nymph or two?
The Bachelorettes
Rapunzel returned from her bachelorette party hoarse and horsey. Sine voce, as the Romans would describe it. She also seemed sensitive to bright lights. Is that a hangover?
A Treasure on the Sand
Think of the flings, the ghosts, the sunsets, the hickeys that hacppened here. By gawd, think of the comebacks, the quips.