by Louie Ferrera | 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...
by Louie Ferrera | 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...
by Louie Ferrera | 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...
by Louie Ferrera | 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...
by Louie Ferrera | 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,...
I lived in Sebastopol for 20 years. We had palm trees in our backyard, but an Oriole couple decided to…
When I first moved back to Eugene from Ireland, I lived in a rental in one of the oldest neighborhoods,…
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