The family cabin is rich in its history. Our family history is splayed on the walls of a cabin rebuilt […]


The family cabin is rich in its history. Our family history is splayed on the walls of a cabin rebuilt […]

It has stood for 95 years. Made of studs and pine board. It was erected on the edge of a […]

The BBC series Larks Rise to Candleford took the last paragraph of Flora Thompson’s semi-biographical books and turned it into […]

If I hadn’t gone to law school, if I hadn’t been the top of the bottom third of my class, […]

Thanksgiving brings some fond memories of large family gatherings. Some included all the in-laws and cousins. But there are also […]

Someone today said that the word ‘truck‘ meant many things. It does. For me it means happiness, sadness and intense […]

It started innocently enough. Brother Bill was coming into my neck of the woods for a high school reunion. He […]

Coffee That simple stimulant that has saved the world (or at least the one I live in) from total annihilation. […]
He came into the world on August 4, 1947. He left on December 13, 2010. He was my brother. […]
In the 1950’s and 60’s, the eastern side of the California Central Valley was magical. At least for us kids. […]