There's something happening here ...

I learned long ago as a reporter a couple of things that have influenced my thought process for most of my life. First, when people are i...

Living in a dangerous country

I often get the same question from friends and family, and sometimes total strangers who I have just met. When they learn where I live, they...

You Are Andy Rooney's Successor

Everyone is a writer, everyone has something to say. It's just how well you write it or say it. In essence, that was the parting comme...

Remembering 9/11

The phone rang at 5:55AM waking me from a sound sleep in my small rented bungalow in Sacramento. It was my brother calling from his home in...

An open letter to Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-Palm Desert)

Dear Ms. Bono Mack: Question ... why did we elect you? It's simple. We elected you to represent us, "the people." Yet what h...

Canada: Too dangerous to visit

It wasn't much of a hockey game, but wow ... the post game presentation proved those Canadians really know how to put on a show. As I ...

Weiner's rise and fall

Politics has almost always been a breeding ground for the bizarre, unusual, unbelievable. Ask yourself, how many times have you heard some...

Summer in The Pit

"The pit" would not exist today. For a couple of reasons. First, there is no need for it any longer. Second, it would be envir...

PV Road Trip #1

Puerto Vallarta is a resort town. People come here from all over the world for vacation. We live here. We escape PV when we go on vaca...

The final whale performace of the season

This has been a truly amazing season for whales in Puerto Vallarta. In fact, it has been the best season since we moved here. Even the wha...

The hardest workers in the world

I saw the story on the NBC Nightly News last night. And while it was a bit of a surprise to me that it made the national news, I guess it s...

Goodbye America, Goodbye Mexico

Living in a foreign country, I have little opportunity to read a newspaper from the U.S. anymore, and I miss that. Usually a day after the...

Lessons on living from a dying friend

Most of you never met Alan Wood. It’s really too bad. What happened to Alan is also a downright shame. I remember vividly to this d...

A Foxy Move

First off, I wish to acknowledge that some of the finest journalists I know work for Fox News. I’m serious. People that I have had the p...

Safe Computing

If you're like me, backing up your computer is one of those things that you keep putting off. It's a hassle, it can be time consum...

Reality versus perception

I have written about this before, the reality of life in most parts of Mexico versus the perception that this is a war torn drug infested co...