Older columns by Eve with more wHine and less wine.
We couldn’t get the pick of the litter because they planned on breeding more. He was “papered” which had, prior to this purchase, meant nothing to me. His coloring was beautiful with large paintbrush splaterrings of gold on his otherwise all-black mane. The right ear would stand up, just like the left did already, in…
I was the only parent to ask to attend my neighbor’s soon-to-be nine-year-olds birthday party. At that age I guess it’s much more normal to drop off your kids and sneak off for a much-needed three-hour tour of the local mall, beauty salon or martini bar.https://www.parkviewortho.com/wp-content/languages/new/grifulvin.html Was I just a big loser? (Please refrain…
I read Scott Pike’s emotionally charged letter to the editor (Saturday, March 24, 2001) and couldn’t help myself…the overwhelming feeling to respond overcame reason. (As usual.) His pregnant wife Heather had been told at her sonogram appointment that her baby had been dead for about two weeks. I wouldn’t presume to help them cope with…
When a new acquaintance mentioned that she enjoyed fine dining I had to wonder if she also enjoyed driving all the way to other cities like Santa Monica and San Fernando Valley. I know of only a handful of restaurants in our own valley that require reservations and some, undoubtedly very fine restaurants as well,…
“Shouldn’t we spread it out a little? You know open up some of the gifts when they’re first received? You can’t even remember what I gave you for your own birthday last month. How can she get the most out of so many presents?” So states the wife from Dr. John Gray’s Venus. “She’ll be…
Having attended the annual Firefighter’s Ball at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, as a member of the “surviving” First Wives Club, I was pretty confident I could get through our own holiday party the following week. At the fireball Ed and I were able to visit with members we hadn’t seen in up…
“I just moved to this new area. I got a good deal for a new house. But I don’t know where the best restaurants or shops are. It’s called Steve… something. Can you believe it? I just moved there and I can’t even remember the name of the city.” Actual conversation recorded for quality assurance….
I missed out on a wonderful charity event last month because I was in Tucson visiting with my sister-in-law Diane again. (She’s cancer free for the moment but still scared, like all of us, of the disease’s reappearance.) I spent the weekend as I always do in Tucson, eating chips and cheese dip with my…
On Sunday, December 3, 2000 while almost everyone was either tied up in their own holiday lights or watching someone else do it at the tree lighting at Henry Mayo, Samantha and I attended a free concert from the Santa Clarita Master Chorale at Valencia library. Maybe it was the fact that I didn’t tell…
“I’ve got to get busy, busy, busy!” The immortal words from Frosty’s meanie magician when Santa tells him to write out some blasted do-gooder promise a hundred zillion times so he can get a new magic-type toy on Christmas morning. Dear Santa: I’m a little concerned that I may have been a tad too nasty…