Cultivating Outrage

  Wil Wheaton was scheduled to sign his new book at Vroman's  on August 31 st : I was there early. Quite a few folks came. Shortly afte...

Link to more photos . (View the photos individually to see the captions.) In February 2020, I booked flights for a trip to Houston a few mon...

 Milford Sound Link to more photos  (As always, click any photo to enlarge it, and view the photos individually to see the captions.) (And d...

  She was at Vromans, promoting her new poetry book. There was an overflow crowd, many with multiple books for her to sign. ( Index to autog...

  Due to COVID , we had not been back to M é rida since Victor came to Los Angeles in May 2019. He had not seen his mother or any of the res...

Link to more photos  (and one video). View the photos individually to see the captions. Polar bears, beluga whales, and aurora borealis! Wit...

Link to more photos . View the photos individually to see the captions, several of which have more information than usual. I have had my eye...

 at Waterton Lake Link to more photos . (View the photos individually to see the captions.) When I did this trip in 2016, I wrote that I s...

  Sunset at "The Window" Big Bend National Park Link to more photos . View the photos individually to see the captions. This tour ...

  After a two-year pandemic absence, The  LATimes Festival of Books  returned yesterday. I managed to hear at least parts of five panels, an...