My long-time friend, and winner of the 1981 Miss Pacific Beach contest when I ran the pageant, Anna Chamberlin, is now a grandmother and went in for hip replacement surgery yesterday. I took the photo below when she came to visit last week.
This photo transported me back to the days in late Fall when the
new cars came out. You could go into the dealership, a teenager
with acne, and pretend you were a buyer -- and you got to leave
with a snazzy full-color brochure showing white families cruising
through the countryside, convertible top down, with the breeze
flowing through their hair.