You may not know that Los Angeles has a metropolitan area of 15 million, but after being here for a few days, visiting our son who works for a CBS talk show, I’ve seen this sea of people, some beyond the horizon. But at a beachfront restaurant in Santa Monica they swam by us to a pier with a giant Ferris wheel illuminated with splinters of neon light, a...
READ MOREAs now, when next door the tall pine trees I have, during 15 years of looking through a tall window next to my desk, begin to disappear. One, during the time it took to take two sips of coffee, close my Facebook page, and start typing this. The house next door, a one-story brick built in the fifties, will be next to go. Hazel’s husband, the last of three, was rolled...
READ MOREThat annoy, I was thinking this morning when my wife called attention to a dark track near a flowerbed that glistened. A leak, she suspected, from our watering system. Called away from my manuscript to examine, to opine, speculate, while the more knowledgeable son of the man whose team of workers does the mowing and trimming each week said, “It looks okay.”...
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The life of a young man, John Howard, at times heroic, at times comic,a person who tries, in the small ways he can, to make his life better.
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