RAINEY & JAN’S VAN, THE SLABS - (CHRISTMAS) DAY 164 Rainey stands over Chris as Chris does sit-ups. Rainey’s gut hanging a little heavy over his belt. OS VOICES exchange Christmas greetings. RAINEY I really ought to get myself doing that. CHRIS You should Rainey. Makes that Tantric...
The road below the building is a 1-way street with no bus lanes and little regular traffic. It’s an upscale area, about a 20 minute walk from where I’ve been staying these past 15 months, and a modest walk from a good-sized mall (with a 6(?) screen movie theater, once that’...
Today being Father’s Day I recall how I used to avoid this day when I was a Facebook subscriber. “Here’s me and dad at the ball game…” or “enjoying a couple of beers…”, came post after post. “Here’s us hanging out at the mall… and now playing a round of golf…”...
He had no interest in being around the delivery room but he wanted to be close by, “to film the kid as soon as it arrives.” “We’ll work it out,” I told Zoё’s little sister, “It will be summertime. That’ll make it easier.” The following day I took my eldest ...
A winning bedside manner, the ability to put patients at ease and a clear love of what she does made me feel compelled to write this in grateful tribute. I hope you don’t have to visit any ER. But if you do find yourself at Monmouth Medical Center’s, I hope you meet Dr. Elizabe...
The residents of Dubai flit from mall to mall by car or taxis. How does it feel if this is your country, filled with foreigners? Unlike the expats and the slave class, I can’t just approach the native Emiratis to ask questions when I see them wandering around – the men in cool ...
I've never even heard the term before, and I know what it means." Fair enough. But the term plainly does not mean what it says, and what it says is not what it means. It's Called Fashion, Look It Up So, if "mall watch" makes no sense defined widely as "watch sold in a ...
Lefty is this amazing lady, she has a fashion degree, does all the alterations herself, and she and her husband run the shop out of their home. They were in there helping their drop dead gorgeous daughter get fitted for her prom dress and grabbed a similar dress for me to try, eyeball...
Wrong! 3 years ago I bought a “mall basket” of the great companies of yesteryear. I thought diversification in the clothing business would save me from quickly moving fashion trends and at least one would survive. But no, father time killed them. All of them. They *all* went bankrupt!
Some of the people with whom I was close and hung out with from that era, I have lost touch with them, or our relationship has become less close due to distance. Some folks – I had completely forgotten about their existence! Does anyone send postcards anymore? Yet while I recycled all...