The Snooze Button Generation

As a scholar and gentleman, I have never understood racket abuse. Why do tennis players periodically destroy their rackets when something ba...

As a parent of two sophisticated daughters, I am attempting to help them live the best lives possible. What that means is open to interpreta...

Over the past six months, I have attended Chuck E. Cheese's in three locations - Lynwood, Cerritos and Lakewood. I have realized a sad t...

If you do the math and round down, it is safe to say, "Nobody reads anymore." A lot of folks - mainly teachers, librarians and pse...

U2 frontman Bono has found the car keys he has been missing for 22 years and might stop singing "I Still Haven't Found What I'm...

As anyone who has lived in the 20th century knows, architects boast the best eyewear. I understand this as absolute fact, and it makes sense...

I am extremely skeptical of the idea that subliminal messages exist in rock 'n' roll songs. First of all, many rockers have a hard t...

I signed up my 4-year-old daughter, Sophie, to play soccer because of myriad reasons. I hoped the soccer experience would help teach her tea...

I have discovered an array of winning combinations - Charles Shaw merlot and string cheese, late night parties and old school hip hop, pinto...

I consider myself an open-minded individual and do not like to judge people. However, sometimes my intuition overtakes me, and I make a judg...

I am a svelte, yet elegant, gentleman. However, because of my lean physique, others sometimes have a problem with it, and at least once in m...

I do not believe it is possible for one human being to change another. Someone can possibly help someone change. But it is only the individ...

After letting my premium cable stations - y'know, HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, etc. - leave my home, I have turned my movie watching to DVDs....

Because I had a journalistic career that often forced me to write about celebrities and athletes, I never am too excited or nervous to meet ...

As a writer with potential, or would-be writer, or pretend writer with faded corduroys, I remember hearing someone ask me, "Do all writ...

Living in Los Angeles and being a journalist or "former journalist," I sometimes run across news tips from the sports or entertain...

As I drove to work in the thick L.A. fog for a second consecutive day, I searched for answers, trying to figure out why it was so foggy.... ...

Life has a crazy way of going full circle, and, sometimes, everything feels all right and perfect. I think I got that idea from "The Li...

In June, the high school where I teach celebrated its first graduation. It was the fourth year the school had been in existence, and the fir...

Every January, my parents visit me in Long Beach, Calif., from Cleveland, and my father, the X-Man, typically does two things: 1) He dives...