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A Halloween Anniversary

Our friends in the northeast get walloped with the first “dusting” of the winter! The photos we’ve received do not resemble the peace and beauty here along the Pacific. In one quick blast, the plans for many were seriously disrupted. Downed trees and electrical lines and all the varied elements which come from living within [...]

By | October 30th, 2011|Family & Friends, Petaluma|35 Comments

Tequila and Texting

Autumn. Truly the best time of the year here along the Pacific. Temperatures are nearly perfect during the day while the comforter is needed when bedtime comes. Windows open and full house of women (including the bulldog) and the football game is on with a World Series game on for later in the afternoon. Another [...]

By | October 23rd, 2011|Family & Friends, Petaluma|6 Comments

Therapy on The River

When Fridays finally arrive and the windows are down while the ocean airs fill the senses there’s one thing left to do during this ten mile commute and that’s connect with “The Wild and the Innocent”; a program on the Bruce Springsteen XM channel. Each Friday afternoon I’m lucky enough to capture portions of the [...]

By | October 15th, 2011|Family & Friends, Petaluma|0 Comments

No Longer on a Vicadin Vacation

Many blogs ago we discussed the power of Bonnie’s “inner strength” and how important this attribute would be in the defeat of her breast cancer. Her reconstruction surgery; a 3.5 hour ordeal was wrapped up on the 26th of September and in less than two weeks time Bonnie has resigned herself to no drugs, no [...]

By | October 8th, 2011|Family & Friends, Petaluma|1 Comment

Defying Logic

When Tom Brady tells his receivers “you have the best half of your life, and I’ll have the best half of my life” it’s an indication that things did not go as planned during the first thirty minutes of the football game. I speak of course of the 2001 AFC Divisional Game held in Foxboro, [...]

By | October 1st, 2011|Family & Friends|0 Comments

Homemade Sauce With Friends

I met this guy named Dan some thirty-two years ago here in Petaluma. I remembered him for his great moustache, laissez-faire attitude and his extraordinary bartending skills. Our paths crossed again two years ago when I returned to the west coast which gave me the opportunity to meet his wife of some forty years; two [...]

By | September 27th, 2011|Family & Friends, Petaluma|4 Comments

Haaapy Anniversary

It’s Sunday morning here. Autumn has arrived and Mother Nature herself has watered our modest little garden where the roma tomatoes, funky sweet cucumbers, heavily scented oregano and basil, and California bell peppers continue to supplement our salads during the week. The normal routine of a Sunday morning continues as the girls stay upstairs watching [...]

By | September 25th, 2011|Family & Friends, Petaluma|0 Comments

She’s My Champion

Every afternoon when I come home from work and walk through the garage there’s a nice reminder of a Boston sports team that runs through my veins and that’s the flag hanging off a pair of hooks adorned with the BRUINS logo with the words EASTERN CHAMPIONS on a beautiful black and gold cloth. I [...]

By | September 20th, 2011|Family & Friends|1 Comment

August, September, SOXtober

It’s a Saturday morning here in Northern California. Autumn is in the air and the locals are enjoying the bounty provided by Mother Nature as of late. Merchant doors are swinging in both directions, people are smiling and the days of relaxing on Dillon Beach are beginning to fade into the memory banks, unless of [...]

By | September 17th, 2011|Family & Friends, Petaluma|1 Comment

Inner Peace

It’s seven-thirty in the morning and a weekend morning to boot and the one place I ought to be is now vacant and needs to be made. Uggh. What in the world am I doing awake? Only several hours ago I sit on the same couch I watched the SOX/NYY game from during a disappointing [...]

By | August 6th, 2011|Family & Friends|0 Comments