Last Friday my husband, Chuck, and I played folk music at the annual Farm Fair at our granddaughter’s school. We figured this was a great chance to expose the younger generation to a little-known-to-them genre, and in this way, to …
A single tree stands 50-75 feet high in our front yard like a giant pole. She is a Queen palm. She is so tall that her great green fronds fan out small against an idyllic blue sky. The occasional picture-perfect …
I am shoveling. It is the last phase before the erection of a fence. I didn’t ever want a fence, didn’t feel it necessary. Until two weeks ago. I had started outside to work in the yard only to find …
The other day I saw a horned toad under one of the sage bushes in our yard in Vista . It was about four inches long. It looked like a fat lizard with a stubby tail, it’s body covered with …
Last Monday, I was stuck for a writing topic about our neighborhood until we sat down to dinner. My husband held up a magazine, saying, “Here, pick a word and write about it.” The first word that sprang off the …
