Tues | Jan 1 Happy New Year! Let’s hope 2008 is as great and enlightened and peaceful as 2007 . . . wait . . .  Anyway, I changed my usual routine for ringing in the New Year—equal parts Gatorade and crème de menthe—and instead chaperoned my son’s first boy/girl shindig, or, as he proudly [...]

This was an especially terrific Christmas and not just because I finally got the Lee Van Cleef box set I’d been asking for all year.  No, what made this Christmas so great was I never had one of those nightmare parking experiences at the mall you normally expect during the holidays.
I was happy. Of course, [...]