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2019-01-05
Places like Cosco and Amazon have these packages of white towels in the section for mechanics. Years ago, I bought a package for kitchen towels. As they got soiled looking and ready for disposal, I de...
2018-12-31
Last year, starting the day after Thanksgiving 2017, we turned my office, on the main floor of our house, into the hospice room for Sam’s last month with us. He passed on New Year’s Eve. With the help...
2018-12-29
Today, I sharpened up some leadership tools for sharing my new life without my partner, by listening to a video interview with Adam Green about leadership. CLARITY OF MY PURPOSE was the theme - gettin...
2018-12-20
It’s almost a year since Sam passed. What I’m missing the most is: “SOMEONE IN MY CORNER” to help me plan for Christmas. I Love the Christmas Season of warming with heart and connections. I’m filling ...
2018-12-15
Today, I picked up my 11-year-old granddaughter from school and we talked about her morning session in botany. She said, “We talked about ferns and how they are fractals. Daddy taught me about fractal...
2018-12-14
Our next door neighbors here in Larkspur are Rajah & Lalima of India heritage. Yesterday we were privileged to be some of the few guest for their traditional wedding ceremony. Rajah's parents and ...
2018-12-12
This morning, as part of the week of the Christmas season of giving, at the Waldorf School, I sat for a pre school-day piano concert by Eric and Laura Barnhill. Their son is in the fifth grade with ou...
2018-12-05
This is kind of a Christmas season serendipity. Monday night, Dec. 3, 2018, I was invited to a talk about Japanese Gardens by Koichi Kobayashi, a Japanese garden Landscape designer. Nancy was part of ...
2018-11-26
Motivational speaker, Jim Rohn, famously said that we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with. Today, Kelly, the girls and I spent the day with the Chang family. they had their ...
2018-11-16
Here's one of my memories about meeting the cute guys at the Thanksgiving conference when I was a senior in high school in 1955: Our Japanese immigrant parents regularly set up youth conferences and s...