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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 uncl...
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 h...
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 ...
2018-11-09
This was sent to me this morning. Although I don't immediately relate to the horse and rider, it does remind me of the sunsets outside our southwest facing windows this last few weeks.I like the thoug...
2018-10-30
Our nine-year-old Grand daughter is the new girl in third grade. Last week Mom volunteered for a baking event planned by the teacher. Therefore, this one classmate’s mother was also there and relayed ...
2018-10-23
Sitting in the car at the Crossroads shopping center, after I had gone to the party store and Half Price Books, I felt my lips were dry. I pulled down my visor and opened the mirror to put on some lip...
2018-10-22
I loved being a wife, I love being a mother, I love being a grandmother. I was fortunate to have been married to someone who was strong about bringing out the best in the women in our family. Yesterda...