http://clapkin.com/blog Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:26:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en  We are home, all seventeen of us, from our “Natives on Tour in Hollywood” adventure. We did not feel like natives, we felt like tourists. Yes, before you can ask, we saw the Hollywood Wax Museum, Ripley’s Believe it or Not, and The Guinness World Records Museum. All of these ... http://clapkin.com/blog/?p=115 Our family lives in Los Angeles, California. It is a hop, skip, and a jump on the new subway to get to Hollywood Blvd, where we have six rooms reserved at the old (1927) Roosevelt Hotel. All seventeen of us are natives of Los Angeles, but we are going to ... http://clapkin.com/blog/?p=114 I have decided to volunteer at a rehabilitation center and everyday, when I enter The Oak Hills, I see my future self strapped to the bed, being pumped and sucked, poked, jabbed, turned, swabbed and looking for someone to tell my story to, someone who would listen it. I approached ... http://clapkin.com/blog/?p=113 You have to know that no matter how good you are and how many wonderful deeds you do in your life, when you come to knock on St Peter's gate, he will greet you with such grace, he will look up your score and let you know that you are ... http://clapkin.com/blog/?p=112 A Closet Story # 2:  I heard tell… I heard tell that you should ALWAYS buy a good pair of shoes and a good bed because if you are not in one of them you are in the other. The above telling makes such good sense to me now that I have ... http://clapkin.com/blog/?p=111    I have been super tense, stressed or whatever you want to call going out of your mind with worry and fear.  I realized that my closets started to bulge like never before. My goodness, I could not throw away stuff fast enough.  On the way home from my pilgrimage ... http://clapkin.com/blog/?p=110    I had an interesting experience when we went into the Museum of Tolerance with our Brandeis group. We had to go through a metal detector.(17 of us) When we left the lady I drove with got all upset at the car and said the guy never ... http://clapkin.com/blog/?p=109 A Sorority Reunion I graduated U.C.L.A. in 1961. It scares me to even write that date let alone conjure up what all that those many years mean. I am sure they mean as many things to as many people who are still alive and still ... http://clapkin.com/blog/?p=108 I got the mail and to my surpriseA box addressed to meI hurried back with it in towSo anxious just to see What could it be, I couldn't guessWhat my thoughtful friend could sendI'm running now, back to the houseWill this driveway ever end?? I'm in the house now and wouldn't you knowThere's a ... http://clapkin.com/blog/?p=107 As If Looking Into a Distant Mirror When I recently visited my uncle and stayed in a suite at The Dahlia Retirement Home, it was as if I was looking into a distant mirror and I did not hate it. I did not like it, but have, since my visit and ... http://clapkin.com/blog/?p=106