Cultivating Outrage

Very young Rodney I've been meaning to write about this for a very long time. T he final impetus was Fiona Hill's  There Is Nothing ...

  At Apple Farm Inn Link to more photos . As always, view the photos individually to see the captions. We went on this short 3-day tour of ...

  As I've always said, I decided in high school that my goal in life was to retire.  And in retirement I wanted to read, write, and trav...

The LATimes ran a lengthy profile of school board book banning activist Sonja Shaw. I dashed off a quick letter about what it seems such fo...

When discussing travels recently, someone asked what was my favorite place. I said, "It depends." For nature,  Costa Rica . For wi...

  Victor and Rodney with the royal palace of Madrid in the background Link to more photos . There are three photo albums in all: Below are l...

The longest story in this blog is about getting a visa for Victor to come to the U.S.  But when I want to send the story to someone, by clic...

  I have a nickname for Donald Trump like the ones he pins on others, one he's guaranteed to hate:  Scared little boy Donnie Trump He...

  I have written before about being a Doctorow fan. He was at the L.A. central library last night, and I bought his latest book and got his...

I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way I can escape growing old. I am of the nature to get sick. There is no way I can escape getti...