I made this soup for lunch and it was easy and delicious. This is one of those foolproof recipes that doesn’t require much work and has lots of flavor. I highly recommend it. My picture isn’t very pretty, but it’s the best I could do. Still, the soup was wonderful. I felt as if I…
Category: Writing
My First Quick Write With a New Student
I am sitting with Elliot. He is a new student who needs help with his freshman writing. He goes to Beverly Hills High. His mom is here with him and she is reading a book while we write. We are going to write for five minutes as our first quick write. The dogs have been…
My Students and A Bit of “Light” Reading
I am sitting with my student Michael. We are doing a quick write. I am tired. This is my usual mantra these days. I have lots of students, back to back, right now, which is not, by the way, how I usually work. During other times of the year, I mix up my day with…
Students, Students, Students
I am in the middle of my big push. November 1 deadlines have been met and now we’re on to November 15th. Then, we head right into December 1 deadlines before getting all the January 1 goals met before the holidays. Also, there are term papers due. I am working on Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert…
Back Home
I got up early this morning and headed back to LA from Ojai because I was scheduled to serve as subdeacon at our 10:30 Mass. (Ray left last night to attend a fund-raiser for our Diocese.) After church, we met our friend David for lunch, a movie, then a post-movie snack. We had a lot of…
A Great Day
Liz and Ron’s living space is getting more and more organized. I spent the first part of today helping Liz clean and get things in place in the 1958 Spartan that is the next big project in their “little home” living experiment. It sits right next to their little house and will provide an office…
Ojai Again
We are up here for a couple of days, helping daughter Liz and her fiancé Ron get their little house details squared away. I am the helper; Ray is the leader on this aspect of the project. Today was centered on electricity and plumbing repair. Their little house is adorable. Sarah, Gregorio, Luna and Nico…
All Souls’ Day
Today was All Souls’ Day. I served in church at the 7:30 pm Mass and listened as the names of people who have died and been recorded in our parish’s Chantery Book were read out for the months of January through April. We were having three Masses so each time four months worth of names…
Halloween Flash Fiction Prompt: Foot, Jacket, and Silence
The day was cold. Camille pulled on her jacket and trudged outside for a cigarette. Damn these new laws that made standing by the dumpster behind the building the only acceptable place to smoke. And what a social pariah she had become. Almost everyone in the call center glared at her when she left, and…
The Pros and Cons to Spotty Communication
We are up in Ojai at the orange grove. Our information from the outside world comes from our phones and the radio, both of which can be somewhat sketchy at times. Tonight, we can’t get the World Series game clearly on the radio and the only words on Facebook from my friends are things like,…
20 Minutes a Day 