Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
A highlight of our recent trip to Los Angeles was the morning we spent working crew for a Pure & Weary production. With Vince operating the boom and me monitoring the camera, we spent a pleasant, though somewhat exhausting, morning watching them work. We still don't know what a "best boy" or "key grip" is, [...]
In the four months since our daughter moved to L.A., she has totaled a car, unexpectedly couch surfed and fended off a crazy Armenian woman who raised a fist at her and yelled, "I will curse you until the day you die!" So, things are going well. But, really, she and her comedy partner Leah, AKA [...]
Ahead of today's swearing in of our 45th president, our favorite comedy duo re-introduced us to our 29th in a fun, layered, really smart show they called "Roaring in Our Twenties". The hapless Warren G. Harding, often ranked as one of America's worst presidents, ran for office under the slogan,"Return to Normalcy" and served from [...]
An anemic since birth, I scored tickets to see the band Iron and Wine, which seemed like the perfect excuse to make an iron rich meal. Unfortunately, my friend Leah who purchased the tickets does not eat red meat, my usual first choice for iron. “Can’t we just focus on the wine part?” she asked. A [...]