The background to this photo is the “Theater of Dreams,” named by Sir Bobby Charlton, who has spent enough time there during his fortunate life to know what it’s about. Well okay,…

. . . on a Journey Through the Past.” Neil Young wrote that. Perhaps he was living in Topanga Canyon at the time, outside of Los Angeles. Canada can look pretty nice…

I never actually lived in Sentry Hill. My attendance at the boarding house reunion in July was a complete fluke. A week after booking my summer vacation in the UK, David Milsom…

One of the sadder consequences (for me: perhaps not for anyone else!) of the divorce was the forced sale of my amazing little RV, an Airstream adaptation of a Mercedes Westfalia motorhome,…

When Tom visited Santa Cruz in August 2009, I asked him what he wanted for his birthday in October. Touchingly, he asked for a beer with his dad in Paris, where he…

I had scheduled my summer holiday this year in two parts. The first week was me alone with a Britrail Pass, and I had little idea of where it would take me.…

You’re right, in a way. Graduating Middle School is par for the course. If you start middle school in a nice suburb, chances are that you’ll finish it. So long as you…

A week or two before Memorial Day, Russ somehow found a tent cabin in Camp Curry available for that weekend. Off we went to camp in the amazing Yosemite Valley! If only…