There was a time when you were my one and only. The day I brought you home from the Sherman Oaks bike store on Ventura Boulevard in February of 2002, you forever changed my previous stubborn belief that a mountain bike was all I would ever need to get around. You were lighter, far more …
So it wasn’t until this morning that I noticed the only disturbance as a result of yesterday’s 5.4 earthquake. Apparently the shaking was enough to topple some artifacts on bookshelf display in the study, namely the baton bestowed on me for my heroic efforts stemming from membership on the Sparkletts Drinking Water team that ran …
Los Angeles just experienced what news reports are calling a 5.8/5.1/5.6/5.4-magnitude earthquake centered in the Chino Hills area of the region, which is about 40 miles away from where I’m at in Westchester, which is a couple miles north from LAX. In my entire life as a SoCal native, whose earthquake experiences go back to …
I came late to the game of golf. I bought my first set of clubs in the early-mid 1990s, but beyond a few mostly clueless trips to the driving range off Burbank Boulevard in the Sepulveda basin I never moved with them onto a course. After sitting for way too many years taking up space …
On one of our latter days in Guanajuato, Susan and I entered the largest church nearest our hotel, known as the Basilica de Nuestra Senora de Guanajuato (Basilica of Our Lady of Guanajuato; built in the 17th century). There were few churches we explored that weren’t breathtaking in one form or another, but in this …
No doubt about it: with the 100-plus miles I ride every week on my bike across Los Angeles, any given seven-day stretch wherein I don’t get impeded or struck by an inattentive or pre-occupied motorist is a good one. And in fact other than the few idiots encountered the first six/seven months of this year …
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At 10:08 a.m. and with little in the way of fanfare (or reaction from Buster), our beloved Russian tortoise was tranfered from the 3-square-foot indoor aquarium she’s long resided in to her new 25-square-foot playground where she promptly sat still and probably won’t move for the next hour. Maybe two, which is what tortoises often …