We had seriously considered going to Disneyland today, but my little boy had a stuffy nose and was feeling generally under the weather. He kept asking for, “Small World ride?” but it just didn’t seem like a good idea to take him. Instead he and I snuggled in bed all day watching The Masters. (He… Read more »
Posts Categorized: My Life
Best Wishes to Your Black Lung
I’m trying every day to simply (!) meet my Nike Fuel Points goal. I can’t stand looking at my Fuel Band late at night and seeing I still need to exercise a bit to hit 4,000 points. So I’ve been making a serious effort to knock out as many points as I can as early… Read more »
Friday Five: Decommissioned Disney Attractions
Five rides that are no longer operational but which I enjoyed: If You Had Wings (Eastern Airlines) Skyway to Tomorrowland / Skyway to Fantasyland 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Flight to the Moon Mike Fink Keelboats
Eight
Today makes it eight months since my mom died. She died on August 12th. I was sitting in the car in the parking lot of Centinela Feed on Pico, waiting with my son for my wife to get some cat food, when my phone rang. A nurse at Woodland Terrace named Ida Alvis — a… Read more »
You Can Surely Try to Be More Alive
The real countdown starts today. In ninety days I’ll be forty. I’m not as freaked out about it as I expected to be. Physically I feel better than I have at any point in my life. Yes, I need to stretch before and after I exercise, and I’m sore more frequently, and I can’t see… Read more »
One More Holiday I Will Not Celebrate
My mom loved Easter. She had a fondness for Cadbury eggs, even though — if I remember correctly — she almost never ate one because they upset her stomach terribly. When we were very, very young she used to play three or four songs on her guitar and we’d all sing along. I know probably… Read more »
Friday Five: Los Angeles Bars
Here are my five favorite bars in Los Angeles: Trader Vic’s The Dresden Tom Bergin’s Roger Room The Standard (downtown) Honorable Mentions: Rainbow Room / Viper Room The Darkroom Brennan’s Soho House
Friday Five: Places to See
Here are five places I have always wanted to visit: The Grand Canyon Venice, Italy Versailles The Pyramids at Giza The Smithsonian
Six Months
Today marks the six month anniversary of my mother’s death. She died on Sunday, August 12, 2012. Not every month is the same length, though, of course. And should I consider “a month” to be “every four Sundays” or simply “the next 12th on the calendar”? It’s the sort of question she would call to… Read more »
Stretch, Run, Stretch
About two weeks ago, on January 17th, Dr. Sohail Shayfer told me I was suffering from iliotibial band syndrome. He told me to take a break from running so much, to take two Aleve naproxen sodium tablets every twelve hours for four weeks, and to stretch, stretch, stretch. I’ve never stretched before or after a… Read more »