In 1981, three years before Tav was about to retire, Diana and i moved from our one bedroom apartment overlooking Beverly Hills to the townhouse overlooking the Forum in Inglewood, then-home to the Los Angeles Lakers. The move was necessitated by the apartments being converted to an overpriced condominium complex and was an easy solution […]
Shortly after Diana and i were married the process began of learning the names and relationships of family and friends — in many cases, people she’d known before my birth. As stated elsewhere in these Grace Notes, the fierce loyalty displayed by Diana and Tav was one of their most admirable traits. A few weeks […]
For five summers — 1967 through 1971 — i attended the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Michigan. Their alum outreach sends me fund-raising letters from time to time. In May of 2015, their heart-warming (tear-jerker?) tale evoked the the first reply. In October (not quite a month before Diana suffered her minor stroke), a second […]
The following was an e-mail sent to Xerox Business Services people and a few retirees in late February 2016 — a week or two after Diana’s death. From 1997 to 2008 Jack would e-mail retorts to me every time one of my published letters to editors or other articles would be posted. Typically he’d tell […]
In a blank TJ’s card with a picture of 5 eggs in a nest on the cover, the note below was affixed to the inside. 13 February 2015 – Friday evening Dear Reina, You can not yet read these words yourself and, even were they read aloud to you in the next year or two, […]
