When I was very young, my grandfather would read poetry to me. Most of it was in a yellow book […]
Archive for ‘California’
A Little Gift
Has your spring not sprung? Are you stuck in a blizzard? Or maybe a scorching summer with no end in […]
Just a Hometown
Lindsay, California is a small town on the eastern side of the Great Central Valley. Fifty years ago it had […]
Kindness and Courage
The Camp Fire in Northern California raged from November 8, 2018 until its full containment on November 25, 2018. According […]
Goodbye Spring, Hello Summer
Early Spring in our little hollow came with poppies. Bright, singing, laughing, orange poppies. The pride of California. It is […]
A Day to Wander
The sky was so blue through the oak trees. It kept asking me to climb to it. The sun played […]
Serenity (and a little laughter)
He: “If there was a picture that defined serenity it would be our front yard in Spring.” He is so […]
Puttering
That is the Alleged Mel. So nicknamed by my brother, Daniel because whenever Daniel called our house, only I would […]
The Iris Homicide
It seems that spring has sprung around here. The first California poppy bloom let me know that our orange carpet […]
March for Our Lives
On a beautiful spring day, several thousand people in San Luis Obispo, California, USA came together to say that no […]
