Author: Reg Green ^{p. 3}

It’s not much of a flowering bush to the human eye (is it?) but on the first day of really warm weather (80F) what a pot of gold it is to the bees of La...

PHOTO REFLECTIONS Yes, spring is here, as this photo of La Cañada library shows. But no one told these trees just up the street. [Add second photo]

My wife, Maggie, and I have always been grateful that Jamie Lee Curtis, who played Maggie in the made-for-television movie, Nicholas’ Gift, was so...

Until I was in my late forties, I had bright-red hair. I looked like Kathy Griffin. Now my thatch is white. By Reg Green The same thing has happened to the...

Why is nothing ever in the right place? By Reg Green Horace Walpole, the 18th century British essayist, worried about the threat of war with France said,...

The famous microclimates in our area were cut into even thinner slices for me today. By Reg Green On the way to the farmers’ market in Pasadena I’d...

Fifty-two years ago today I began my life as an immigrant in New York. I’d flown in the night before and had already found America was full of surprises....

In case you would like to see something other than the Parade. By Reg Green The flaming colors of the fall contrast vividly with the stunted evergreen of the...

Entry to the coveted Rose Parade seats that my wife and I had been allotted was strictly controlled and to keep out gatecrashers we were each given a symbolic...

I went for a short hike yesterday, the first since I broke my ankle a few months ago, with my wife, Maggie, watching over me like Mary Poppins. By Reg Green The...

There was no one in the doctor’s waiting room at the hospital when I got there this morning, the first time I can remember that ever happening. By Reg...

Last week, a couple of months before my 93rd birthday, a man selling me a small household component said, “It’ll last a lifetime.” By Reg...

It’s one of the misfortunes we all worry about: having our wallets or purses stolen with all our credit cards inside. By Reg Green It happened to Roger...

PHOTO REFLECTIONS I’ve hiked in areas of the U.S. where the only vegetation in sight is grass, in others where tens of thousands of trees are as close to...

Anthony Burgess, British linguist, librettist, screenplay writer, composer of over 250 musical works and author of well over a hundred books — including...

Editor’s Note: Reg Green, a frequent guest writer for Colorado Boulevard, remembers how Jamie Lee Curtis is off-camera. The first words Jamie Lee Curtis said...