When Lou and I got back to Monterey after that long trip down to LA, money was getting very tight for us. Money was always tight. In fact, I can’t remember a time in the past ten or eleven years when I haven’t been concerned about how little money we have. But whenever we were […]
I have a few word-usage pet peeves. These word-usage issues didn’t start out as my own irritations, but rather, a very memorable college professor implanted them into my awareness when I was in journalism school. Once she did that, whenever I read or hear the misuse of these four words, it’s like tires skidding in […]
Giving others advice is tricky for me because after everything Lou and I have gone through in the past decade, I’m only absolutely certain of two things: One, I can’t know what it feels like to be someone else; and two, they can’t know what it feels like to be me. Of course, knowing those […]