Bunny Slippers and Ice Cream

I'd never seen a grown man in a bathrobe. I'd never seen a grown man eat ice cream like a child, lifting each spoonful up to the light and admiring it before he put it in his mouth. I'd also never seen a celebrity in real life, and didn't entirely understand the concept.

My brother and I were standing outside a TCBY ice cream shop in a little strip mall outside Malibu. I was 10 years old and still sandy from the beach. It was one of those early fall days that desperately wanted to be summer. My parents Read more