Today Ray and I spent all day in Ojai. We were getting the orange grove ready for an onslaught of campers this weekend: Sarah and Gregorio, Liz and Ron and friends. Ray and I do well with deadlines so this gave us the perfect impetus to make our orange grove hospitable for our guests. The…

Today I met a writing friend of mine for coffee in Westwood. On the way over, I was beset with bogged down traffic on Santa Monica Blvd. so I took an alternate route through Beverly Hills on Carmelita. I was following a black Prius from one stop sign to the next traveling west. I noted…