Here’s my piece in the CS Monitor today – The Fellowship of the Christmas Ham THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE HAM About the time I thought the vein on my neck was going to explode from the stress of the holidays,…

My mother needed her Christmas card list updated because – well there’s no gentle way to put it – because her friends keep dying.  Since I took over the printing of her address labels after my dad died, now the maintenance of her…

This weekend I saw The Muppets, which I really enjoyed even though it’s a little slow in the middle and it’s probably made more for adults than kids. But, since it’s marked towards kids all the trailers were for kids…

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Is it time for the holidays already? No. It’s Bulky Item Trash Pick-up week! I can hardly contain my excitement whenever I receive the postcard from the rubbish company announcing that we…

I’ve added a new blog feature – movie trailer reviews. I figure I don’t get out enough to do movie reviews so I’ll just review the trailers. (Since you get to see three or four of them at a time.)…

This is a little roundup of our LA “Staycation” in LA Parent magazine.

Ahh Donald backed out. But it would have been so much fun – here’s what will be missing: President Trump, with Vice President Snooki at his side, could assemble an entire team of reality stars to run the government. To…