It’s been almost a year since Aunt Val died. I’m driving with my dad across the San Fernando Valley, on our way to Aunt Val’s house. Though we were all promised that the house would remain in the family, it has been sold, and there are many things to be picked up and moved out….
I don’t support the resolution that congress just passed. I don’t support the Bush administration’s obsession with Oil^H^H^HIraq, and I think it gives way too much power to the president. So I wrote my senators (my US Rep is a hardline Republican so I didn’t bother) and I asked them to please oppose the vote….
I am standing in the kitchen making dinner, listening through the open window to Ryan and Nolan as they play whiffle ball in our front yard.. They’re actually playing nicely together, not being overly competitive. Nolan stands over a patch of dirt, in front of a bush, which represents home plate, while Ryan hurls the…
