While in LA, I took the boys swimming near the Santa Monica Pier.  There were several gay couples on the beach, with no shyness about their mutual affection.  This was a surprise for the boys.  I mean they’ve known gay kids in high school, and their mother and I have always emphasized open-mindedness, but they’d never seen men making out in public before.  It was something of an education.

The only bad thing about the CA trip was we didn’t get to spend enough time in NM.  Think we’ll head for Santa Fe next month.  I have business to do there anyway.  That’s a good enough excuse. 

You know, after all the struggles of the early years, the art biz is turning out to be a pretty good way of life.  But I wouldn’t repeat the first decade for nothin.