The Dodgers would go two and four against their nearest rivals, the San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks but would start the month with a sweep of Atlanta and end the month with a sweep of the Mets. They would run a record of 16-10 for the month of May and a hold of first […]
And so, the 2024 Dodger season began. Following two games in Korea against the hated San Diego Padres, the Dodgers returned to the mainland for another week of Spring Training. With apologies, I’ll hop on my soapbox for a moment and complain about the inanity of playing two regular season games in the Far East, […]
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 […]
A scary February dissolved into a potentially terrifying but hopeful March. We brought Rolando home from the rehab facility the last week of February and after a week at home, dad seemed to be recovering into himself. He still moved slow and required a lot of help, but the mind was operating at a higher […]
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 […]
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 […]
As I pondered my words for this week, I looked at writing about a recent stay in Downtown Los Angeles and the change it’s undergone this past year. I wrote notes on the change of the dynamic in that area and the future it holds. And then Phil Mickelson happened and that piece is set […]
Chile Relleno has been a large part of my food education, since I was a little boy. I remember eating Relleno’s at family dinners and enjoying the wonder of which pepper was gonna be the hot one. As I’ve gotten older, and moved to California, the search for the ideal Chile Relleno has become one […]
The Year of our Discontent has mercifully come to a close and hopefully dawns the year of Redemption. For those of us who endured this past calendar year, it is a time we will be speaking of until the moment of our death. Never has our country lived through such a time; yes, we have […]
Where the 91 Ends 