I sit here this morning on my own. It’s a peaceful Saturday morning and all the girls have retreated to their own agendas for the day. I filled the back of the SUV with all our recyclables earlier and drove our youngest to her place of employment and headed over to the recycling [...]
Originally posted on Papa’s blog: “Cancer … We “CAN” Beat This": About a month ago I placed an excited phone call to the first of Bonnie’s Beautiful Booster’s (Mary) to let her know she was the 6,000th visitor to this blog. Mary was also the first of Bonnie’s friends to make the trek across country [...]
It’s Friday morning here in California. A marine layer of fog has covered the morning sunshine. The windows are open and the breeze coming into the office is most welcome. The Rolling Stones are on the IPOD with an explanation on “scraping that shit right off your shoes …” There’s no telling what Mick was [...]
“Writing is a struggle against silence.” – Carlos Fuentes Below was originally posted on the Finding Inner Strength Together (FIST) blog: I was thinking of our daughters this morning during my quiet commute along Bodega Drive. It’s relatively easy to allow your mind to wander when your transit does not include the business end of [...]
The sun is starting to show some promise here along the river. Some much needed sun I might add and as the ladies continue their slumber I think back on a weekend that started this past Wednesday. A truly glorious way to start the weekend by walking out of the office midweek and kissing it [...]
As many of you know, our oldest daughter is studying abroad at the University of Leeds, approximately two hours north of London. She lives with three other “flatmates” and her weekends are always jam packed with activities. This past weekend she explored the waterfront capital city of Wales (Cardiff [The Fort of Didius]) and after [...]
Out here along Highway 101 between Sebastopol and Petaluma sits an “Extended Stay” motel. I refer to this particular Extended Stay as “the palace”. It’s in a fairly rough part of Santa Rosa between Hearn and Corby Streets; I know this because I lived in Room 214 of this establishment for four months while I [...]
So the joggers in the afternoon remind me each afternoon that it’s that time of year again where the winter pounds are being shed for the spring and summer months. I always internally ask each of them to run an extra mile for me. Running was never my forte. Running a bar tab is probably [...]
I watched my wife grab the laptop last night and take it to her part of the couch in an effort to process our oldest daughter’s federal and state tax returns. Yes, we all understand it’s that time of year again. Remember the days when we all filed the 1040EZ form? A one page instrument [...]
From the day we are born we have an audience. Whether or not they paid attention to your point of view was another matter, but I think we can all agree we’ve each had an audience for the entire time we’ve walked this planet, and today I start to learn the need to understand or [...]