Our daughters and their husbands/partners (except Gregorio, who was leading an archeological dig) treated Ray to an evening at the Hollywood Bowl Saturday night. Beck was playing with the LA Phil, and according to everyone in the family who went, it was a great concert. I, unfortunately, was home with what might have been the…

We slept together, me and my two younger sisters, on a pallet laid out on the floor in the living room. We only had one bedroom in our little wooden house, and that was for Mama, Daddy, and my baby brother, Joey. My sisters, Jenny and Molly, were three and five, and I, May Ann,…

Walking through the orange grove this afternoonI feel the cool breeze wafting in from the ocean As the sun beats down and warms the earthA nearby shrub jay repeatedly sings his high-pitched songWeep-weep, waa. Weep-weep, waa My life feels lately like that incessant song Filled with good things and a few not-so-goodSo much happening that…