growing old

Magnificent formations of white cumulus hang over the foothills, mountains in the sky above mountains of the land. Though the town is full of parents and siblings for graduation ceremonies,…

QCOSTARICA LIVING – There was a time most careers involved an apprenticeship of one sort another. Some official, others involving years of servitude, and others time simply spent watching and…

Workers had just painted the lines on the new college track. A podunk little school in California’s agricultural Central Valley, I finally got my undergraduate degree there at 33. I…

I met Lamar shortly after returning to California in the 1980’s. Deciding to get my college degree at 30, I had landed at a small school in the geographical center…