I hope by the time you read this column it will already be outdated. As the euphemism goes, I’m between jobs right now. A few weeks ago, the new CEO of the large mental and behavioral health nonprofit for which I served as director of communications called me in to tell me that, in a cost-cutting effort, he was eliminating my...
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Several years ago Kelly and I went backpacking in Southern Utah with our best friends, John and Sabine. On the drive back to California, we stopped in Las Vegas to spend a couple of hours. We knew exactly which tourist attraction we absolutely had to visit: The Liberace Museum. OK, so we were going for the kitsch of it. Now, I...
read moreI’ve always been a pretty political person. In 1976, my mom drove me downtown, where I picked up a stack of ‘Jimmy Carter for President’ brochures to drop on the doorsteps in my neighborhood. Some of the neighbors were quite scandalized! I remember that on election night my parents made me go to bed prior to the...
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I’ve never been much for Valentine’s Day – at least not as an adult, anyway. But when I was a kid, it was a ton of fun. It was all about jumping onto a porch, dropping a card, ringing the bell and high-tailing it out of there before the door opened. One year, to aid in our already legendary stealth, my best friend and I...
read moreI’ve loved movies for as long as I can remember. It started when my mom would drop my older siblings and me off at the Murray Theater. It was there – when I was 4 or 5 – that I convinced my very amused big sister to sit through the original True Grit three consecutive times because Glen Campbell kept getting killed. (I had...
read moreBy nature, I suppose I’m a pretty sentimental guy. I mean I have rocks I chipped from the walls of my grandmother’s childhood house in Greece. I have my Aunt Tina’s framed picture of John Kennedy, and the first thank-you card my niece Lyndsey sent me. I know they’re just things. But to me they have real meaning. The really...
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