Who do you dress for?

Who do you dress for?

My husband once asked me, “Who do you dress for, PJ?” The question startled me. Not because it came from a man, let alone my happily-married one who happens to be my longtime beau, but because I’d never considered it. On reflection, I knew I dressed...
The California Life Style

The California Life Style

An odd thing happened in the OC this winter… it rained. Seriously. California is winter’s promised land in Elsewhere, USA, and Orange County is its prime showcase, a mecca for many. Sunshine is our platform, our right, our spirit animal. In a significant failure...
Weathering Social Agenda, the Storm Our Times

Weathering Social Agenda, the Storm Our Times

My husband and I have no social agenda except to have and be a “nice time”. “Nice time” = It was Larry’s frequent phrase and I instantly ascribed. When we converted ourselves to California-ism, it became easier to achieve: our new state...
Blizzard

Blizzard

It’s been a remarkable year, with most of our friends and family back East snowed in and under by weather: withering heights of snow, entrenched anxiety and disheveled spirits. Daggers of ice dripping from eaves, threatening to drive stakes into Spring. The...
House guests #4: whether you like it or not

House guests #4: whether you like it or not

  The winter season has passed and taken its weather with it. Weather happens whether we like it or not, so we grin and bare it. We are blessed in southern California because with weather we most often get to bare it, not  bear it. Ha-ha-yeah! As you know we have...