The Graduate

The Graduate

by | 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...
Lights, Camera…Action!

Lights, Camera…Action!

by | 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...
Christmas Traditions

Christmas Traditions

by | 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...
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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...
Mac’s

Mac’s

by | Jan 9, 2025 | Friends & Family

I’m sitting at the counter of Mac’s Deli & Cafe in downtown Santa Rosa and it feels just like I’m in a movie about a typical morning at an old-school diner. My seat is a low, wicker- backed chair, the counter formica. Through the opening into the kitchen three...