Journey in the Dark

So a couple days after my last blog entry, written here in LA, the snow started to fall in Wisconsin. It turned into the greatest blizzard in over 10 years. While friends were trying to dig out of the snowdrifts in their driveways and canceling everything to stay home, I was basking in the sun, […]

I need some help here. Driving around the LA area I realize people here talk about traffic like we in Wisconsin talk about weather. Where the weather is what we whine about, fixate on, and messes with our lives, “traffic” does the same here in LA.
But what is “traffic”? Traffic in Wisconsin means there […]

We flew out of Wisconsin last Friday morning. It was 2 degrees. Actually a little warmer than it had been. By noon we were getting our rental car in Los Angeles, driving to visit our daughter and her husband in Pasadena. It was nearing 80 degrees.
We’ve all done these trips out of the deep freeze, […]

I was at Macy’s briefly this week looking for a lamp. They don’t have lamps. But they do have clothes. It’s their big end of winter sale (it sure doesn’t feel like the end of winter…it’s below zero outside!) They have racks, and racks, and racks of clothing. A huge floor of all women’s […]

Thanks Jon and Mary, this is definitely me! Only I couldn’t add the wrinkles.