The 2024 Dodgers season rolled along and with the turning of the calendar to May, the Dodgers injuries really took a toll. They were playing solid baseball but not dominant as many predicted. Still, in the pupae stage of the season, optimism was high. The addition of Teoscar Hernandez provided a new charm and whimsy […]
A moderately chilly January turned into one of the rainiest February’s in Los Angeles history and the process for Rolando’s recovery became the focus of our lives. It was slow and tedious and wasn’t progressing great. He wasn’t regressing, we just didn’t see any real improvement. His mind wandered, his strength ebbed and flowed, his […]
Since Rolando’s first fall in February of 2022 (a few days before the Rams-Bengals Super Bowl in Los Angeles) it felt like a yearly February pilgrimage to the hospital. It seemed like he was always stricken with some severe medical issue every February. February ’22 it was a Cardiac episode, February ’23 it was a […]
I’ve been blessed and even in saying that I feel like a hypocrite. I’m not a religious man, never have been and perhaps, I haven’t earned the right to claim I am blessed. But I believe in the teachings of good and doing right by your fellow man. I’ve lived a life under the conscience […]
As a lifelong sports fan, I’ve learned so much about life. From the first backyard football game I caught a pass in, to the first baseball game my parents took me to and on up until this very moment, I’ve learned and continue to learn so much about the world and my life. The ups […]
As we all stagger, fall back and re-stagger back to normalcy, I’ve decided to begin an old event with my dad that I loved. Adventure days. In early 2020, once a week, I would take my dad somewhere he’d never seen or visited, in and around Los Angeles. And then we would find a new […]
The gravity of time pulls on all of us. Many of us spend our lives in the pursuit against that gravity but the scientific truth is that the gravity always wins in the end. Father Time is undefeated. As a person who loves and takes care of his Dad, I see the everyday in’s and […]
It started as a lark. A contest I read about on Instagram and told my self, ‘What the hell.’ As a long time worker in the hospitality industry, I’ve always considered myself a writer first and foremost and this past year, I finished my first novel. Now, I’ve written fifteen or so screenplays, TV pilots, […]
It arrived like a wraith in the night. I’d heard the warnings on the television and perhaps read an article and maybe told an off-handed joke about the ‘virus’ but the realities of COVID didn’t really hit me until they shut down everything in March. And then it became all too real. No job, no […]
This week, I’ll be starting a new format to integrate my readers a little more. I will introduce a weekly Bartender of the Week, of which I would ask you all to submit, via Facebook Messenger, your favorite bartender with a picture and the stats as I display today. I will also have a Culinary […]
Where the 91 Ends 