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The rocks are not bright like a cherry tomato or deep red like a margherita pizza sauce, but more orange-red like a robin’s breast caught in a glow of sunlight. One thing I didn’t expect in Arizona or Sedona was green. Along the Oak Creek Valley, it’s all sycamores and pines and oak trees braidingContinue reading “Seeing Sedona”

1. Tatum is brave. She’s doing things with her spirit that grown adults are too scared to do: introspect, reflect, discuss, own, transform. 2. She creates. She has long been known to be super talented at drawing and painting. She painted a gorgeous Georgia O’Keefe-inspired calla lily for Call this week. Her newest preferred artContinue reading “Fourteen reasons to love Tatum”

Totally rad day of surfing in Santa Cruz.

There is something about seeing old friends that is fortifying and grounding like little else can be. It gives continuity and normalcy and perspective, all useful in a year that has been most un-normal. Seeing the Pauls was grounding, normalizing and as always, brought a lot of good laughs They all seemed so well. GloriannContinue reading “Emerald Friends When It Rains Gravel”

It’s good to get out, and San Francisco is a fairly magical place to get out to. It’s especially nice for me to be outside in the fresh air instead of squirreled away in the outside room at Mom’s and Doug’s house, where I had hidden away for the last two days and nights. IContinue reading “San Francisco New and Told”

Happy Thanksgiving! Greetings from Sink’s Grove, West Virginia, where the moon shines bright and the bulls roam free. Kevin found a small farmhouse for us for a few days and it’s so nice to have a new view. From every window, we see nothing but rolling green hills, cows, puffy clouds and hay bales. WeContinue reading “Thanksgiving II”

Halloween 2020 didn’t happen for a lot of kids, but it did in Cabin John. Lots of social distancing, contactless picking up of treats on tables, and, appropriately, mask wearing. It was awesome, considering. Events turned darker than expected personally, but it was a treat having family and friends with us to celebrate, including parents,Continue reading “It was a Dark and Stormy Night”

It took a lot of back and forthing to make a plan and execute it, but we did, and like clowns from a car, Bridget, Justine, Mom and Doug popped off a Southwestern airplane to visit us on the East Coast. Everyone stayed well, knock on wood, in spite of plane neighbors not wearing masksContinue reading “Big Trip, Biggar Fun”