I am on the Gold Line train heading out to spend the day with baby Luna and daughter Sarah. This had not been my plan for today, but Sarah asked me yesterday if I could help her. I had a dozen tasks slated for today that I scurried around yesterday and completed. I am not…
Month: May 2013
One of Those Days…
This has been one of those days. You know the kind – full of hurry, worry, planning and people. Too much to do in not enough time. Everything good, but filled with just enough tension to make it feel a little too hard. Yes, that’s been today. I am not going to write for 20…
An Early Morning Trip to Our Orange Grove in Ojai
I’ve been up since 4 o’clock this morning. My husband, Ray, and I wanted to do some work at our orange grove up in Ojai, but we both needed to get back by mid-afternoon. So, off we went at 4:30 am for the 11/2 hour drive. Luckily, there was no traffic at that hour so…
Religion and Family Values Here in Beverly Hills
When I was growing up in my little Texas town, I knew one man who was a Jew. He was the father of a friend of mine and I didn’t actually know him well. He was a local dentist, Dr. Poliakoff. After I married and moved to Sherman, Texas (25 miles from my hometown of…
A Time to Slow Down for Us All
I think my body is in holiday mode. All I want to do is cook or rest or eat. No desire to run out and clean more in the garage, which is on the to-do list. No, instead, I am inclined to stare at television, head off to the kitchen to whip up a honey-sweetened…
A Great Film Produced by A Few People I Know
I just returned from seeing Gatsby. I have to say that despite a reluctance on my part to go to see this film because of the lukewarm reviews, I ended up absolutely loving it. I don’t even like Leonardo DiCaprio as a rule, but he was perfectly cast as Jay Gatsby and Tobey Maguire played…
Delicious Honey-Sweetened Orange Cookies
Today, I made these cookies. They are delicious. Of course, they had the benefit of having the superior flavor of one of our oranges from our Ojai grove. In fact, the oranges in the picture below are satsuma oranges, which are in the mandarin orange family along with tangerines and clementines. They have a wonderful…
Baby Luna, Public Transport, Comfortable Shoes and Me
I am staring at a pair of well-worn tennis shoes that I have up on the chair across from me so that Cordelia doesn’t decide to drag one or both outside for a good chewing. These tennis shoes – gray Asics – with my socks stuffed in the tops are a little tattered and completely…
A Happy Visit
My nephew, Jim, is here with his two friends, John and Murray. They have just ridden their bikes from San Francisco to LA on Highway One. They arrived at mid-day looking tired, slightly sunburned, but happy. They said they had a wonderful trip, camping on some nights and staying in motels on others. They stopped…
Helping Hands
I am sitting here at my glass table in the living room. It is 9:12 pm and I have been responding to my online students’ reading comments for one class and editing a chapter of another student’s novel. Today, I wrote a proposal for another class for Story Circle Network – Healing Through Writing –…
20 Minutes a Day 