Ray and I are busy decorating the newly refurbished 13th floor condo of one of our estate clients. We supervised the renovation and tomorrow our client will move into her new home. We are working a lot so this will be short for tonight. I will be posting pictures of the new condo soon. Until…
Category: Flash essay
Pat’s Story: An Eye-Opener
Last Saturday at the St. Thomas the Apostle Breakfast Club, which caters to those who can’t afford a hot breakfast – meaning the poor and homeless – I struck up a conversation with one of our regulars, a woman named Pat. Normally, I don’t probe into our patron’s situations. I don’t want to pry and…
An Unusual Treat: Korean Spa, Naked and All
Today, daughter Elizabeth and I went to a Korean spa. This was my birthday present from Liz (back in January) and we resolved that it was time to carve out a few hours in both of our busy schedules to go and indulge ourselves with this experience. My only issue – I don’t know how…
Grandbaby Visit
Tomorrow little Luna is coming for a visit. Ray and I have been looking forward to seeing our little granddaughter all week long. She is joining us at the homeless breakfast, then coming home with us for the day. We might even take her to LACMA (LA County Museum of Art) for just a little…
A Travel Day Up the Coast
We have just returned from Santa Barbara by way of Ojai. For those of you who don’t know, Ojai is 25 miles south of Santa Barbara and 12 miles east of Ventura. We spent part of the day organizing our storage bins in Ojai – a tough job that was helped by the sunny/breezy/not too…
Binge-Watching Admission
Okay, I have to admit it. Ray and I have started binge-watching the television show, Parenthood. We must have watched 5 episodes yesterday on our day off. That meant staying up to 12:30 am to watch “just one more.” The series which went from 2010 – 2015 is about the Braverman family, which is composed…
Good Friday
Here is a painting from Caravaggio on the entombment of Jesus. Quite beautiful and a fitting meditation for today.
Flexibility…
I have just concluded one of those days that had about twenty different moving parts, ranging from packing up packages for eBay to communicating with my students for an online flash fiction class I’m teaching to having a big meeting with the contractor regarding a renovation project we are overseeing to having another meeting with…
A Welcome Discovery Related to Writing
Today I worked on my novel. I have discovered an excellent way to get this done during the week when I often have trouble finding time for my writing. I have a writing friend – one of my former students who has since graduated from college with a writing degree – who comes every week…
20 Minutes a Day 