Eyes Wide Open: Looking at 2019

2019 was an active, hectic, and stressful year. The simmering concerns I had been harboring in recent years about my mother’s living » Read more

Channel Islands, August 2019

August 20, 2019 Day 1: Santa Barbara Island Was it a good idea to take up cold water diving again? This question » Read more

2018 was a year in which aging, mortality and illness reared their ugly heads, in the family and our circle of friends. » Read more

Friday, August 31, 2018 The last several summers were marked with a tinge of regret. How could another year be passing without » Read more

The short version I didn’t really try to set a new record for longest year’s end summary EVER, it was an EXCEPTIONALLY » Read more

Friday, March 3, 2017 One year ago, on my birthday weekend, we stayed for the first time at the lovely Borrego Springs » Read more

We are water and water is life. It surrounds us and sustains us. Our planet, ourselves, are composed of and yet require » Read more

I celebrated my birthday this year with wild animals in the desert. No, not party animals, and no, I don’t mean my » Read more

One of my favorite shows as a child was the Time Tunnel, in which a pop art striped black and white time » Read more

Part 2: Do you have a Taurus? This would be our adult relationship; we would fly to New York for a week » Read more