Friday night. Waiting for Rachael and Ariel to bring Luna back from their dinner together, “a date,” Rachael called it for the three of them. Luna spent the day with Grandma and Grandpa and is also spending the night because her mother Sarah has returned to work in her family medicine residency program and is…
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Visit in Salt Lake City
We are in Salt Lake City visiting my sister Leslie’s son Jim, his wife, Karri, and their kids, Eli and Sophie. We also hope to see Leslie’s daughter Kevin and her husband Scott while we are here for this short visit. We went for a hike today, then to the U of Utah Utes baseball…
Blog Milestone: 125,000+ Views! Thank you, Readers.
I have been waiting to hit 125,000 views so that I could celebrate your support of my blog, my friends. Today, I have 125, 433 views of the 1530 posts I’ve written since I began blogging daily back in 2011. I have had over 65,000 visitors to my blog and over 4, 000 comments. I…
Tonight and Today
Scurrying this evening to get all the prep work done for the upcoming Story Circle Network classes that begin in mid-May. This is after a day up in Ojai taking care of estate-related business. The good news is I got a lot accomplished today and I feel much better knowing it’s done. Hooray. The weather…
Repost: Elie Wiesel’s “Night” and Its Relevance Today
Today I worked with one of my UCLA students on a paper centered on Elie Wiesel’s book, Night. This is Wiesel’s first-hand account of being forced to leave his home in Transylvania (along with his entire village) and relocate first to Auschwitz and later to Buchenwald concentration camps during World War II. The volume is…
Today & A Little Visitor Tonight
We were up early this morning to go cook breakfast for the homeless at the Breakfast Club at St. Thomas the Apostle, Hollywood. We also made 12 quiches to donate to the Easter brunch tomorrow for all of our parishioners. It’s amazing how 12 quiches seems like nothing when already cooking for 150 people. The…
Good Friday: How This Connects to Our Modern World
We have just come from church for Good Friday. Very touching indeed this mass. The Gospel reading was The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to St. John, which details Jesus’s condemnation by the crowd, his crucifixion and death, then being taken to the tomb. We sang a hymn during Communion with a verse…
Afternoon with Nico and Luna – A Happy Day
This afternoon, Ray and I had the pleasure of taking care of our two beloved grandkids. This was our first time solo with Nico for any length of time and a while since we have had Luna all to ourselves as well. Needless to say, they were sweet, adorable, beautiful, loving, did I already say…
Stained Glass Class Tonight
I have been to art class tonight at the Barnsdall Art Center with daughter Liz. This is a stained glass class, but there is also the option for mosaics. I have been working on a tree that I drew freehand, traced onto a sheet of copper foil, cut out, then glued onto a piece of…
New Resolve Prompted by My Visit to the Doctor
Today I had to go to the doctor for a physical and I am now home recognizing that it is time to do some life changing. Apparently, I have some weight to lose : 10 – 15 pounds (not a big surprise, of course, since I can read a scale as well as anybody, but…
20 Minutes a Day 