It’s strange having an infant and a teenager at the same time. As a baby, Charlie is completely dependent on us for survival. Though he is no longer hooked up to the ventilators, IV drips, and various machines that kept him alive during his...

  This is how Charlie woke up this morning, happy as a clam. That is, until we forced him into the requisite baby pumpkin costume. I wonder what babies think of this strange holiday where they are dressed in some crazy outfit and a parade of...

  Here is Charlie celebrating his half-birthday is an outfit hand-knit for him by the talented Ellen Bloom of L.A. Is My Beat. My son is one of the best-dressed babies in Los Angeles, certainly light years ahead of his dad! It is so hard to...

  Soupy Sales died on Thursday. That name is such a part of my childhood I feel compelled to pay tribute. Truth be told, and I guess this is awful to say so soon after his death, I never really “got” Soupy Sales when I was a kid. Today I can see...

  I look at my son's face and see the history of my family in his smiling countenance. I never dreamed I'd have a baby a decade into the twenty-first century and I think of all my family members born during the nineteenth century that I knew so well....