Encounter With An Owl

Encounter With An Owl

by | Mar 27, 2025 | Nature

Yesterday at around 11:00am I saw a Great Horned Owl on the creek trail near my house. I’ve walked and biked this trail hundreds of times, seen all manner of aquatic birds and songbirds, river otters and turtles but never once an owl. I had originally planned on doing...
Take Part In The Arrival Of Spring!

Take Part In The Arrival Of Spring!

by | Mar 23, 2025 | Meditations, Nature

  The saying Spring has sprung is misleading. The word sprung implies something that happened immediately, unexpectedly, as in She sprung out from behind the tree to surprise me. I guess one could say that spring has indeed sprung…if you’ve been living life with...
New Stuff

New Stuff

by | Mar 18, 2025 | Meditations

A couple of weeks ago I bought a bunch of new stuff and man did it feel good!  First up were the shoes. I’d been wearing the same black New Balance athletic shoes for biking and walking for something like the past five years. They were worn out and no longer felt good...
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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...