Santa Monica Shootings Today

Today a gunman walked onto the campus of Santa Monica College and starting shooting an automatic weapon. This is the school all three of my children attended, many of their friends, along with many students from Beverly Hills. Four students are now dead and several more are critically injured. The gunman is also dead. This…

On Being Married 33 Years

Tomorrow is my 33rd wedding anniversary. Ray and I have somehow managed to be married longer even than my own parents, who made it to 32 years before my dad passed away. That is a strange experience for me – to be married longer than my parents who I always thought had a respectably long…