We get wildfires in Los Angeles.  The malicious glow in the night as the wind whips flames hundreds of feet i the air.  The ash and pieces of partially burned bark falling from the smoke plume too close to my house and car.  We pack evacuation kits.  The community effort to rally around those displaced [...]

It feels like 100 years ago.  I was probably about 15 years old, enjoying that early teen girl hormone rush, when a guy could be considered cute no matter how bad his sneakers smelled.  It was a time when, if a boy dressed in 3 distinct madras plaids and word a live salamander on his [...]