Twenty-five years ago today — on a spring morning in 1991 — I sat in the audience in front of the Oviatt Library at California State University in Northridge and watched Tommy receive his Bachelor’s degree. I think of that day often, with gratitude that I could be there to see that ceremony. Tom’s mom was also there, along […]
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Consider a mental image: I am riding in the passenger seat of Tommy’s pickup truck, driven by my teen-age son, on a Los Angeles night — a night like the boy himself, bright, full of expectation and promise. Los Angeles feels to me at that moment like a place where anything is possible, a city […]
I just returned from a reunion with my two brothers, Tommy’s uncles, in Los Angeles. The three of us hadn’t seen each other in years, although we talk on the phone frequently. My older brother, Fred, flew out from Maryland for the visit, and I drove down from my home in Oregon. Billy lives in […]
As described in the previous post, Tommy and I used to enjoy walking/skateboarding through the Venice canals neighborhood. We usually came down Dell Ave. from the north and rode/walked across the bridges where Dell crosses the canals. After crossing Washington Boulevard a bit further south, we would typically walk/skateboard southward through the Marina del Rey […]
Today is my mom’s birthday. She was born in Colorado in 1922 to Howard and Lillian Rose (my grandparents) and died in Los Angeles in 1996. Today would have been her 90th birthday. Tommy called her “Grandma Ida”, and he spent a lot of time at her home on Breeze Ave in Venice and at […]
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