Friday, March 20, 2015
3:41 PM

On the first day of spring, we're remembering our childhood winters....
3:39 PM

So many of my childhood memories blur together in my head. Summer is one long camping trip where we fished in a river in Montana in the morning and got chased by water moccasins in a Texas lake after lunch and visited the Trail of Tears museum before dinner. I have a hard time separating out what happened...
A boy and his mountains
2:11 PM

When I was a boy, white Christmas was distant concept. Yet it was always close at hand.I grew up in at the very northern peak of California’s Central Valley. My hometown of Redding is known by travellers far and wide as “that unbelievably hot place where we stopped for gas before driving to Oregon.”Mount Lassen from ReddingThat position at the tip...
Friday, March 13, 2015
Act your age
7:23 PM

Each morning, I open my eyes, smile to myself and rejoice at being 18-years-old. Then I move. My body has no shortage of devices to tell me that 18 was a long, long time ago. “In your dreams” is literally the last vestige of my physical youth. But my mental youth? That’s a more complicated story. This week I turned 64, which is old enough to make...
11:18 AM

This summer, Will turns forty, which means, much to my surprise when I stop to think about it, that I'll be 38. I'm not really sure how that happened. I've spent so long being the young mom, hearing "oh, you're just a baby" at gatherings with other parents that I almost didn't realize that I have reached...
Friday, March 6, 2015
4:56 PM

I almost stayed home that day.I am, as I've explained, a closet introvert. A shy person pretending to be an outgoing one. I enjoying socializing when I'm amongst friends, I can even be the life of the party if the mood strikes me, but jumping into new situation, meeting new people, that's not my thing....
In praise of those unlike me
1:23 PM

I had dinner in Slovenia Wednesday. Well, not really in Slovenia, but in the warmth of Slovenian friendship. Bella and Julija, 2012Over a big plate of čevapičiči (elongated Slovenian meatballs), I rekindled my friendship with Martin Jelovsek. Martin and his parents were our hosts when Cecile and I took a 40th anniversary trip to their spectacular...
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