Sunny at 10am as the day starts up, not too hot so far but we’re in the middle of a heat wave – it hit 104 yesterday. Will nevertheless worked…

My son’s private grammar school has a cadre of parents that want them to turn their playground — currently, a grassy lot — into an artificial turf soccer field. I…

The COVID-19 lockdown hasn’t been bad for me. It’s given me time to write, and to read. There are a few chances to do things in ways I already know,…

Sitting outside in my backyard, a mess needing much work, but pretty and shady nonetheless. My son, fresh ME degree in hand but with no work yet, is coming home…

Up 2am; read for an hour then went back to bed. Woken up 6am by my phone – it was Luke attempting to call a work associate. So we talked…

Up with Laura at her doc meeting – dr. tuscano showed up late. I took notes. Her lumps are gone, she said. That’s certainly good. Continued monitoring with blood tests…

My Aunt Jackie died last week. She was almost 95; she never married. She was the 6th child of a family of eight (my father was the baby). She entered…

And, a chance to play more with WordPress features! Why Maui? When we got married way back before COVID-19, before avian bird flu, before MERS, before SARS, before 9/11…why, when…

I’m taking this great writing class at Sacramento City College, taught by Jan Haag — for which this blog was started. It has gotten me to write more. I want…