Good exercise, cooler weather, and helping to raise a 4-year-old granddaughter lead to very sound sleep for me…with really weird dreams. Earlier this morning my dream was a new variation of my corporate nightmare where I’m employed but nobody will tell me what to do or where to … [Read more...]
Dusty’s Story
I lost a good friend a couple of weeks ago. He would have been eighteen years old if he had lived until early November. That means he spent more time living under the same roof with me than any living creature except maybe my parents. I tell people that Dusty was a rescue dog … [Read more...]
Marketing a Home on Another Planet
Trends on the left coast seem to make their way here eventually. Marketing super expensive properties with story lines in them actually seems to have started on the Gold Coast of Australia but this West Hollywood home apparently had a $40,000 marketing budget. That might not be … [Read more...]
DMV Regression
As my birthday rapidly approached, I stared at the card from the DMV saying I had to come to one of their offices to take and eye test and renew my license. What fun. One of my first impressions of Durham when I moved here in the fall of 1984 was the DMV office. If the scene … [Read more...]
The Secret Game
At a certain age you can read history and realize you could have reached out and touched it or even been part of it. Such was the case reading Scott Ellsworth’s The Secret Game. Unfortunately, it isn’t always a proud moment when you realize you were totally clueless to the drama … [Read more...]