I seem to be spending an inordinate amount of time recalling all the rash and intemperate things I did before getting knocked down a few times helped to smarten me up. One of the items on my What-the-Hell-Was-I-Thinking list was the time somewhere around 1959 or 60, just before I moved to Hawaii, when I…
I like staying in good hotels. I like the clean, efficient rooms with wi-fi and little soaps in fancy boxes and the instant hot water in the showers. And I like the hotel restaurants with efficient, polished servers … especially those restaurants with Eggs Benedict on the breakfast menus. But there is a certain funky…
I’ll be away from home for the next eight days. First stop: Oakland, California, to see the Red Sox and the A’s in three games. Then overnight on Amtrak’s Coast Starlight to Seattle for three more games, this time with the Mariners. I’ll try to post once or twice along the way and will provide…