Ray and I arrived in Sacramento today in early-afternoon after leaving Ojai at 5:40 this morning. We are here for less than 24 hours to pick up a 1953 Spartan Imperial mansion “park-model” trailer, which was designed to be used as a home rather than for vacation. These trailers were popular in the post-World War…

I recently came upon a book written in 1925 entitled, “Similes and Their Use” by Grenville Kleiser, who was an instructor at Yale Divinity School, and the author of several books including, “Training for Authorship” and “Great Speeches and How to Make Them.” In this book on similes, Mr. Kleiser has gathered a large number…