Richard got massages. He scheduled range of motion sessions with the physical therapist. He toyed with getting some marijuana. Laurie reduced her hours at the office brought work home and set up an “office” in their bedroom upstairs. They hired a caregiver four days a week. She picked up the house and did some laundry. [...]
After a startling event, Richard seeks a specialist’s advice about his neuro-muscular symptoms A week after tennis with Carlos and Julie on a Saturday of rare sunshine I skipped the gym and started my favorite walk of five miles. I liked the new path along the railroad tracks and up two-hundred concrete steps to the [...]
This is a work of fiction that I plan to serialize on this blog. The man in this story is Richard Vargas DeLiep. He is 62 years old and loved his wife and children. Unlike many of their friends, he and Laurie had side-stepped the ruinous cost and agonies of divorce. Together, they [...]
Visibility in the rain closed to about 25’ on the 405 Southbound as we passed The Getty museum on our way from Ojai to Long Beach to catch the Catalina Express passenger ferry over to the beach town of Avalon for last Saturday’s 27th annual triathlon. Catalina is the most easterly of the Channel Islands [...]
Because the Hayward Fault mini-earthquake rattled me awake at 5:36 this morning, I got a headstart out of Oakland over to San Francisco on BART, where I exited on the Embarcadero directly into the homeless encampment called Occupy San Francisco. There are free bagels and a few port-a-potties but, trust me, maintenance is irregular. If [...]
