This morning a friend of mine sent a 3-minute YouTube video that was entitled, “Dove Real Beauty Sketches.” At the beginning of the video, we see a large loft space where there is a chair next to a curtain. A group of women have agreed to participate in the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, but…
Category: Family
Grandbabies, Music and Fun
I have just returned from seeing my sweet grandbaby, Luna, along with her mother and dad, plus my daughter, Liz, her boyfriend, Ron, and my husband, Ray. We went down to Heritage Park in Pasadena to the Levitt Pavillion there and had a picnic on the grass while we listened to the bluegrass and folk…
Off to Ojai and the Meteor Shower
We are heading out to Ojai to escape the city lights and enjoy the meteor shower from the dark recesses of our orange grove. The skies are crystal clear and the temperature is mild. It should be a lovely night to savor the stars and the howls of coyotes. Our dogs are with us, snuggled…
That Elusive Paperwork Muse
I am looking at a pile of papers in stacks on the table around me. This is unusual because I tend to keep my workspace tidy –too much clutter usually makes me jittery – but I am forcing myself to take note of this paperwork that demands my attention. I have bills to pay, calls…
Music, Travel and Musings
We have just returned from an evening with Sarah, Gregorio and Luna where we went to Levitt Pavilion in Pasadena and heard a band from Austin named Whiskey Shivers. The park was crowded with families and other residents of the city, and the night was cool. Everyone either brought lawn chairs or spread blankets out…
A Luna Visit plus a Text from Liz
Today we went out to Sarah and Gregorio’s to visit. Here is Grandpa with Luna. Here is Luna playing in her bouncy toy: We had a happy visit and even got to see Gregorio who arrived home early from work. That was an extra treat. Sarah made us all lunch and we sat and chatted,…
Break a Leg, Liz and Ron
Tomorrow is the first of three days of the California bar exam that daughter Liz and her boyfriend, Ron, have been studying for since the day after their graduation from law school on May 12th. These two, along with their classmates in the accelerated 2 year SCALE program at Southwestern Law School, have been basically…
5 Star Non-fat Chocolate Cupcake Recipe
Today, I modified a recipe that daughter Liz shared with me where you substitute 15 ounces of canned pumpkin puree for all the wet ingredients required in an 18.25 oz. chocolate cake mix to produce either delicious low-fat cupcakes or cookies. The only problem is that Ray and I don’t eat refined sugar so we…
Faulty Dryers and Surviving Those Early Married Years
We just spent the day at Sarah’s new apartment, helping her to connect her new washer and dryer. Well, her OLD washer and dryer that she purchased from Craig’s List . The washer is working great; the dryer not so much. A piercing squeak arose once the dryer drum was filled with wet clothes and…
Revisiting My Novel/Memoir…
I am thinking of returning to the memoir/novel that I worked on for a hundred years and looking at it with fresh eyes. I have work-shopped much of this writing and have had lots of feedback in the past. I’ve written and rewritten and gone from surface issues to much deeper ones. But I made…
20 Minutes a Day 