"No matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up.” — Lily Tomlin
What’s going on in my life
In its last years, West Berliners covered the Wall (which came down 20 years ago today) with paint, political statements, street art, and graffiti. Many Americans, when they picture the Berlin Wall, see it in color. That’s not what I remember. Both times I saw the Wall, it was forbiddingly gray. In 1966, Donna and […]
Photos from same: Our friend Mary Ann put on a birthday dinner for me and our guest Rudy, who was visiting from Las Vegas. I recently turned 63 and Rudy’s about to turn 72. Unfortunately, Mary Ann stepped out of the frame to take this photo, so I’ll stick a photo with her in it […]
I seem to have survived another year . . . two more and it’s Medicare City, baby! The photos are from our road trip to Las Vegas, October 30-November 2, 2009. Click on any image to enlarge.
Dateline Las Vegas, Nevada. The proximate excuse for this trip is a Las Vegas Hash House Harriers weekend event, but we’re really here to let the kids know we’re still kicking (so that they won’t forget us and neglect to care for us in our rapidly-approaching dotage). Also they wanted to see Schatzi, who once […]
My friend Darrell gave me a free ticket and VIP parking pass to the annual Tucson Classics Car Show, so I spent a happy morning mooning over beautiful metal. Car shows and auctions these days are dominated by 1970s muscle cars (this one was no exception), but I’m interested in older, stock cars, the kind […]
Seven or eight years ago some guy veered off the highway and ran into a tree on the back of our property. I was mowing the lawn inside the fenced area of our yard and heard it happen, so I went to see if anyone had been injured and wound up keeping the driver company […]
As the kids pulled out of the driveway to start their trip home to Las Vegas earlier today, I thought about the fact that we and they drive nearly identical Chevy Trailblazers, and how well these cars serve us. I started buying American in the early 90s. During the 60s, 70s, and 80s, I’d only […]
Three more photos from the kids’ visit: They left Tucson for Las Vegas around noon today, and are probably still somewhere in Arizona. We should hear from them, reporting in safely at home, in a couple of hours. A month from today, on October 28th, we’re driving to Las Vegas to see them, our daughter […]