This is one of those eerie times when I feel the silence before that moment when lack of knowledge becomes full knowledge and those who find out the truth cannot go back (and I won’t be able to take back what I am getting ready to say).
Its kinda like the answer to: “Do storks really [...]

I always loved when Daylight Savings started in the autumn as a teenager.
Curfew was at midnight but on that last Saturday in October it meant that midnight was actually 1 AM.
Now the time change comes a week later ( which honestly, was so confusing this last week, I text messaged three friends in California to [...]

Mae & Nubbyns. I love my dogs. I love my dogs so much that last year I spent more after veterinarian than I did at the pediatrician. Or on insurance for my daughter and myself. Or on food. WellŠ that last one is not true. My dogs love me, they love each other, they love [...]

Today is a very special day. I was woken by my daughter before 6 AM so that I could get dressed and get out of the house with her to walk to her high school with enough time to stop by our closest independent purveyor of fine organic coffees . On a normal day I [...]

It is always interesting to hear different manufacturer representatives talk about their green efforts which are sometimes major advances, occasionally gestures of good intentions and every so often admitting that they would like to jump on the green bandwagon are making changes as fast as their corporate machinery will allow. The economy and the recent [...]

There were some pretty nice car sales to benefit charity in this year’s Pebble Beach auctions but unlike with the least expensive car donated selling for over $50,000, they are not the run of the mill type of auction. For the rest of us who have cars that we no longer use, need or want, [...]

High fuel costs are impacting us in ways that we probably never realized. It is now being reported that traffic reduced 9% nationwide between January and May of this year. That number seems pretty low to residents of larger cities and in Los Angeles, I can tell you from personal experience that journeys that used [...]

My former mother-in-law is famously quoted as saying:
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
What most do not know is that she usually would go on to add “And hamsters don’t love anybody.”
I am thinking of this because my daughter, a full on 14 year old, a girl version of [...]

This blog was written 1 1/2 years ago by a good friend who an industry expert & veteran of the automotive industry. Steve loves all things cars and has taught me an unmeasurable amount about the industry. I wish that he would write more often but for now I wanted to share this insightful review [...]