What would it be like to live in Southern California? … I’ve got friends with family who live in Los Angeles, Pasadena, Cerritos, Long Beach, Buena Park, Santa Ana, and the like, so it’s not like they’re unconcerned about their...
I need. You need. We all need. Bobb Biehl’s sagely wisdom about our human needs was succinct and insightful. There are 8 reasons why people do what they do. These are insatiable needs. They are the need to be: Loved...
Christmas time is the time for family memories and traditions, along with the year-end rituals of reminiscing. I’ve had a low-key kinda deal here in Southern California with my wife’s extended family. One family that undoubtedly has many mixed emotions...
I’ve just finished sending out our Christmas cards (handmade e-cards) to friends and family. I scrolled through our haphazard address book in Gmail Contacts and bcc’d probably 200 or 300 people. Dozens of hard bounces, so have a lot of...
Had a good chat with Ken Fong today, pastor of Evergreen-LA (or its more formal name, Evergreen Baptist Church of Los Angeles.) He’s grown wiser in his years, being a dozen years further down the road of life, and has...
Insomnia blogging. My sleep has been disrupted 2 nights in a row now from unknown unconscious causes. NYTimes noted this problem of unreliable Internet connectivity at motels + hotels: Five years ago, the main challenge for data-hungry business travelers was...
Here at this new cafe on the corner across from Gate B32 at Dulles Airport, waiting for my son to finish his bacon, egg and cheddar sandwich (on wheat, that’s for you, Mommy!) and our JetBlue plane begins boarding in...
Good call, TIME magazine, I’m counted among the annual ritual of “person of the year.” And it’s a great way to generate buzz for a print-based weekly news magazine. But look at 2006 through a different lens and you’ll see...