by Ron Barak | Nov 17, 2016
I was talking to one of my health providers the other day. Which one, you ask? I can’t tell you because that would violate my Hippocratic rights to privacy, in spite of the fact that the rights belong to me and I’m willing to waive them. Anyway, my provider suggested...
by Ron Barak | Nov 15, 2016
I thought we could all use a brief respite from all of the anger going around. But allow me just a few words first. Don’t you just love all those expert pundits and pollsters who had the election all figured out? Until they didn’t! Less than a week later, they’re . ....
by Ron Barak | Oct 18, 2016
So, the other night, The Wife and I and another couple were supping at a nearby bistro when a nice looking couple in their early 30s, and their three or four-year-old son, were seated at the table right next to us. The father dutifully set the kid up in a highchair....
by Ron Barak | Oct 6, 2016
California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed bills last week that would have repealed the sales tax on diapers and tampons, saying that they would cost the state budget too much money. He didn’t comment on the lack of wisdom in trying to create distinctions in what should...
by Ron Barak | Sep 27, 2016
Does a rotten apple (a socially deviant student athlete) necessarily have to spoil the barrel (the athlete’s school sports program)? In recent months, there has been an increasing number of school athletes (yes, most, but not all, of them football players)...
by Ron Barak | Sep 22, 2016
A not so well-guarded foible that he seldom admits or discusses, Cyrus Brooks, the thoughtful protagonist of my Brooks/Lotello crime, suspense and courtroom thriller series, is addicted to . . . dance. More precisely, dance shows. He loves the two television reality...
