pronounced Too Lare E. By the locals. Of whom my husband was once one.

We are in Tulare at the Best Western. We feel it is a home away from home because we always stayed here when Denny and Debbie were still living here. Now they’re in the Bay Area and we’re on our way to LA so I can TAKE THE GODDAMMED COMPS on Sunday. Or is it GODDAMNED?

Tulare, for those of you who are literary-minded, is the site and source of Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath.