In a recent meeting with my colleagues, we all sat around a conference table, our identical Blackberries in front of us. As one by one the Blackberries chirped, clicked, chimed,…
Appetizer Name something you would categorize as weird. Peanut butter and tuna sandwiches. My oldest son used to eat them every day. In fact, for awhile, I had to make…
Here in California, it is unusually cold for late April, but that was fine with me. I settled in last evening, wrapped in my favorite blanket, to watch the seventh…
This past week, I was contacted by a reporter from the Stockton Record. She interviewed me for a story about women here in California’s Central Valley who blog. She has…
Appetizer What is your favorite vacation spot in the United States? It might be a place I haven’t gone yet! Odds are it has a beach and I’m longing to…
1. I love springtime in Northern California. 2. Cranberry scones and cinnamon-raisin bagels are foods I love to eat for breakfast. 3. It seems I’m always searching for evidence –…
Last night over dinner, one of my oldest and dearest friends mentioned that she had spent some time yesterday writing a letter to her daughter who is attending college in…
1. Tonight I saw Oprah’s interview of Thomas Beatie, the transgender man from Oregon who is now pregnant. 2. “Sway” by the Pussycat Dolls makes me wanna dance! (“Shall We…
Remember Lodi’s dancing pickle featured on Wordless Wednesday on February 26, 2008? A couple of weeks ago, this blurb appeared in the Lodi News-Sentinel’s Cop Log: A pickle — the…