Evan Kamida passed away suddenly and unexpectedly this week. I met his mother, Vicki Forman, last weekend and how I wish I, and Jim and Charlie, could have met Evan, too.
Many thoughts and many hugs to his family, and much more.
Contributions can be made to remember Evan to:
The Pediatric Epilepsy Fund at UCLA
Division of Pediatric Neurology, Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Friends had invited us to a pool party on Saturday afternoon. Jim had been asked to speak at a workshop here so I looked up directions on Google Maps, wrote them down, and off Charlie and I went—-only to spend an hour and 15 minutes driving in circles on both sides of a state road. I should have printed out a map; I mistakenly thought that knowing the names of the streets would be enough. We were going to the home of a relative of our friend but I couldn’t remember the relative’s name; I called information, but couldn’t get …read more