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Is it too late to wish you a Happy New Year? This first full week of the New Year has been nothing short of Heaven here. The snow has been falling and the evergreens outside my window are hanging heavy…

The other morning my friend and I went on a walk.  Since it was good exercise, we climbed the streets that go up into the foothills above our homes.  It was a long climb that left us both gasping for…

Is there any better month than September? The heat of late summer always makes me feel listless.  Then September comes and I feel like I’m waking up after a long nap. September is a busy month, full of new school…

  Over 100 years ago, a women planted these poppies around her home. She planted these roses too. Her home is gone.  It’s just a shell of rocks and rubble.  But her flowers are still there. We went there last…

I walked out into my yard yesterday and overnight plants that were green the day before have burst into bloom.  I love my garden this time of year!  Peonies, forget-me-nots, hawthorne trees, snowballs, roses, irises, and poppies… all in bloom.…

I’ve know I’ve been missing for the past few days. Life’s been getting the better of me.  Partly it’s because I’ve been busy… My two good friends and I are cooking for a teacher dinner this afternoon for the teachers…

A few weeks back, my Dad sent me an email. When I read it, my jaw dropped to my chest. Let me start with a little back story. My Dad has never really known who his father was. When we…

“ You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but…

When the fire in Alpine started last Tuesday, I was with my kids at a swimming pool in a neighboring community. My son was on the high slide when he spotted a small column of smoke in the distance.  He…