Nowhere Near the Edge

I lived in the Los Angeles area for more than 15 years and had only intermittent brushes with celebrities. (My favorite tale is that I beca...

It is hard to figure out how some verbal tics become commonplace. Nevertheless, every once in a while a useless new word or phrase enters t...

After months of searching, waiting and hoping, we will have progressed from seeing a house for the first time to being under-contract buyers...

So a guy blew up his apartment while trying to exterminate bugs. A couple of thoughts: If it took that much poison to deal with the critte...

Amid news that Starbucks is closing 600 stores and Americans are using less gasoline comes word of another reduction that will affect your e...

The name of my fantasy baseball teams is the Eefus Aficionados. The eefus (or eephus) pitch is a seldom-seen high lob that has appeared in ...

Who knew that my comment about companies hearing about what they do wrong in a nanosecond would come home to roost so soon? If I had been ...

Sometimes it pays to be nice. I recently sent a letter to the President of Southwest Airlines expressing my gratitude that the airline, by ...

There has been a mild amount of angst over the recent inception of a new law in California that requires drivers to use a hands-free device ...

We have become quite daring in our spacefaring adventures. Today, two residents of the International Space Station removed a potentially d...

We spent all last week preparing for our move. We have now relocated ourselves to Northern California, and the truck with half of our lives...

Escrow closed yesterday, right on time, with no complications. We are now quite literally living here on borrowed time. Disconcerting.

Yesterday was, finally, the last day of school. Because the school will be dropping sixth grade next year, the fifth graders also got a pro...

I seem to get swept up in strange things when I leave the office for business. If it is not a nationwide airline computer meltdown, it is a...

Tomorrow I will take my 63rd, and last, flight between Oakland and Burbank since mid-September. It is a measure of Southwest Airlines' ...

A great American once said, it's always darkest ... just before they turn the lights on. Our house has not been in such disarray since ...

Programming note: Discovery is showing "In The Shadow Of The Moon" tonight . As I have said before , it is well worth the time s...

As an end-of-the-season treat, Little League players from our area were invited to take a walk around the warning track at Dodger Stadium be...

One of the most unusual and impressive achievements in aeronautic design was the SR-71 Blackbird spyplane, developed and built at Lockheed...

If you have some time to spare, enjoy this article about how context can affect the appreciation of art.