by Louie Ferrera | Sep 20, 2026 | Friends & Family, Music
It’s August of 1974 and I’m standing at this bus stop, not a bus stop in the traditional sense mind you, but a bus stop just the same. After a few minutes of waiting, what looks like an old school bus painted in wild psychedelic colors comes rattling up to the curb....
by Louie Ferrera | May 17, 2026 | Friends & Family
Our daughter Denali just graduated cum laude from California State University, Monterey Bay with a B.S. in Marine Sciences and a minor in Biology. College was a rite of passage and an important milestone in my life. Looking back I can say without a doubt that my...
by Louie Ferrera | Jan 27, 2026 | Friends & Family
Floating down Alberta St. we’re in the flow amidst a slow moving stream of humanity all of us lazing on a Sunday morning. We have a vision: drinks and pool and extras willing to be in our movie but it’s got to happen organically so when we stop looking that’s when we...
by Louie Ferrera | Dec 23, 2025 | Friends & Family
At this time of year I try my best to tune out the static and noise of overt commercialism that is nearly inescapable and focus on what I really like best about Christmas: the traditions. As a kid growing up in New Jersey, my family had time honored traditions that...
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...
So sweet! I love those river otters!
Yes! I enjoyed this writing, and the commentors' notes as well. "We played the music and the music played us"…
Person-to-person gifts of back-yard fruit, and compassionate acts done just for others, carry messages of human kindness that can't be…
The joy we got from sharing music, in real time, together, and in real life, was a generational gift that's…
Glad you included the vineyards, the lovely contrast of large, bright-yellow leaves with the dusky purple of grapes peaking out…