Celebrating St. Patrick's Day

While my celebrating won't include a parade, I will do my best to honor my family heritage with a good meal, a drink and likely a song or two.

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Portraits of My Father as a Young Man

These last few days I have been thinking about my father as February 25 was his birthday.

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Keeping a Journal

Last evening Julia Cameron was signing books at Collected Works, a local favorite bookstore. I didn't go as I have attended her workshops several times before and have been writing the "morning pages" she advocates in her book The Artist's Way for 30 years.

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A White Sports Coat and a Pink Carnation

When my prom date Charlie Holtz arrived at the door in a white sports coat, I was waiting in the living room wearing a pink spaghetti strap formal, the most beautiful dress I had ever owned.

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Station Wagons and Me

After I moved back to Southern California from New York City, I took a quiz that said that my ideal car was a station wagon. Ridiculous, I thought—I was driving a racy red BMW sedan

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