We take our grandson out every chance we can. With life complicated enough for working parents, raising a two-year old, finding…
The muffin man
“Do you know the muffin man? The muffin man, the muffin man.Do you know the muffin man who lives on…
Simple pleasures
With the playgrounds finally open again after months, we introduced our grandson, Zander, to a youngster-sized jungle gym and slides…
Friday’s optimism lesson
therapy for chefs or spouses
My Pavlova was not horrible for a first effort. Egg whites frothed into stiff peaks with sugar and then gently…
Good neighbors have great fences
Love your neighbor as yourself; but don’t take down the fence. Carl Sandberg, poet, d. 1967 I know most of…
soupy nostalgia
Having an early lunch with my wife at the Bread and Cie bakery in the Hillcrest neighborhood of San Diego,…
family time
Seen through the lens of a secular viewpoint, there is not a lot in 2020 that holds any comfort, joy…
splish-splash
My parents listening to Bobby Darrin fifty (sixty?) years ago probably were content to let me splash around with a…
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