AFTER LEAVING DOME UTOPIA – 1973
Hare and I removed the back seat from our Buick Special, installed a sleeping platform above storage boxes and took a leisurely tour up to Canada, over and down through Idaho, and returned to SoCal. I studied for and passed the Bar Exam in San Diego, then landed a job with the Los Angeles County Public Defender.
We bought our house in Northridge, and doubled its size to provide room for Joshua (and later Mara) romp and play. Harriet established a private medical transcription agency and worked (largely from in our home) for the next several decades. After six years as a P.D., I went into private practice, focused on criminal defense from Blythe to Cambria and San Diego to San Francisco, and was President of the San Fernando Valley Criminal Bar.
Joshua attended UCBerkeley and has spent years in I.T. Mara attended Yale, has earned her M.B.A. and is in upper management at a major Santa Barbara medical company. We have a five-year-old grandson who skis double diamonds and “sends” 100’ cliffs on belay.
Harriet retired from medical transcription and has served the community by reading to children at our West Valley branch of the Los Angeles Public Library. I am the past President and current Secretary for the Friends of the West Valley Library. I work in its bookstore one afternoon a week.
We celebrated our Fortieth Anniversary with two weeks in and around Barcelona and two more weeks in and around Paris. We’ve also toured the Southwest and the “grand circle” of Zion, Bryce, Arches, Canyonlands, and Yellowstone. Before “lockdown”, we spent weeks crossing from British Columbia to Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, Niagara, the Bay of Fundy, and down to Portland, Maine.
Hare and I enjoy attending Pierce College’s Senior Encore programs, primarily for art and music. I spend plenty of time in the garden (with 20+ tomato and 9+ pepper plants and over 10 fruit trees), and I’m constantly shredding branches and leaves to mulch and enrich our hungry desert soil
