Years ago, I bought a portable GPS system to put in my car. I loved the idea: Put in the address where you want to end up, and the GPS will tell you how to get there – turn by turn. It wasn’t very sophisticated back then, but it worked. The best part was that […]
Integrity
How To Fake Character
My wife, Diane and I spent 11 years living in Arizona. Our first little house was brand new, and we had to do the landscaping ourselves. So we headed to the nursery for advice. “Citrus,” the nurseryman said. “Grows great in Arizona. So we bought an orange tree. We planted it, watered it, and waited. […]
Growing Marijuana By Accident
Recently, I wrote about growing popcorn in our driveway at our little house in Redondo Beach, California. An accidental spill of kernels turned into a mini-crop of popcorn stalks. Somehow, those kernels took root in the worst possible dirt. That’s not all we grew at that house by accident: We grew marijuana. I never did drugs, […]