Nothing is more heart-wrenching than to see an email from someone who has died, a message sent by a stranger who has picked up that person’s identity and created a similar email address for themselves. It usually begins “Hi” and immediately you know you do not want to open it. The same happens on Facebook. … Read more

Moving day arrived. We flew to Washington on a partly sunny day with rain predicted for the next. But weather wasn’t a factor. We found the boat in the warehouse, waiting for a steaming light to be installed. If we felt emotional about selling our home on the water, we tamped it down. The boat … Read more

Everything has a beginning and an end and I was going to find one of the gazillion pithy quotes that states this simple fact. Instead I’ll talk about the sentiment behind it because the end of a big part of my life begins tomorrow when we travel to Washington to put our boat up for … Read more

My favorite season arrives at the end of March. Full of hoopla and hype, Major League Baseball takes over the sports channels, bringing crotch-scratching, spit-spewing, dirt-kicking behemoths right into our living rooms. And I love ‘em all. My team is the San Francisco Giants—winner of three World Series in five years. The last few years … Read more

I love Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the zaniness, the hidden messages, the tripped-out quality that makes you wonder what happens next. The Mad Hatter’s tea party scene is one of my favorites, perhaps because of the characters (the ones drawn by Disney and the ones portrayed in film). I hosted a table at a Tea … Read more