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by | Mar 6, 2025 | Friends & Family, Love

Dear Sam & Denali, Every year as your birthdays approaches, mom and I take a walk down Memory Lane. We’ll replay key events in your lives, making them come alive once again. One of our favorite stories to recount, and a preview of our lives to come as parents, is...
Emma’s Barbershop

Emma’s Barbershop

by | Feb 28, 2025 | Friends & Family, Meditations

  To walk through the door of Emma’s Barbershop in Santa Rosa is to enter a portal to the past.  An old school barber’s pole stands in the window, spinning its red and white stripes into infinity. The shop is small and narrow, customers wait for their haircuts in...
A Place Out Of Time

A Place Out Of Time

by | Feb 23, 2025 | Nature

The sleepy little village of Yelapa, Mexico appears like a dream as our water taxi speeds south from Puerto Vallarta along the coast of Banderas Bay. We round a promontory and there it is, a perfect crescent scooped out of the land, it’s all azure sea and golden sand,...
One Tangerine At A Time

One Tangerine At A Time

by | Feb 18, 2025 | Love, Meditations

Donald Trump is once again wreaking havoc in the White House. Anger and hatred abound. Me? I’m out there spreading the love and kindness one tangerine at a time. We have several different types of fruit trees in our backyard but a little tangerine tree is by far the...
Solar Light Enchantment

Solar Light Enchantment

by | Jan 26, 2025 | Meditations

Night begins to fall and the solar lights blink on one at a time, it’s a reliable progression. First is the light bulb replica, the incandescent variety basically unchanged since the days of Edison. It hangs from the bare branches of our Asian pear tree. Below the...