The Children Are Gone!
As of today, we have no more children in our family. What’s happened to Arthur & Caroline, you ask? Nothing…except that Caroline is now 18, which makes her an adult. Which means we’re all adults here now, and will be unless and until some grandchildren show up. It’s been a
Way to Go, Caroline!
Parents reading this post won’t be surprised by what I have to say. But I can distinctly remember walking my daughter to her first day of kindergarten, and that evening attending the first back to school night for her. And now she and her friends from that day — which
Partial Solar Eclipse: May 20, 2012
Check out the posting on my Council blog at http://council.olbert.com/2012/05/21/on_public_comment/.
Romantic Comedy Done Right
I’ve been an avid Chuck fan for the entire time the series was on the air. When I first heard the concept — nerdy guy becomes living database of national security secrets who has to be protected by a beautiful spy — I thought it was nuts. But there was
Making Some Days
Today I went to the Department of Motor Vehicles and Traffic Court to fix a ticket I got for driving with expired registration tags. That’s a correctable offense in California, albeit you have to pay a processing/paperwork fee. Along the way I experienced two more examples of the old adage
Whistler and Chalet Beau Sejour
Arthur and I did our second annual father/son skiing trip to Whistler, BC a few weeks ago. Unlike Tahoe at the time, Whistler had plenty of snow. Even better, it was pretty much all on the mountain and not on the roads :).
