A Very Valentine's Weekend.
Valentine's Eve started with the most beautiful evening walk. We hiked to the highest point in Hidden Hills where we enjoyed a glorious...
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Feb 7, 20212 min read
Super Bowl LV!
We look forward to Super Bowl every year. Like everyone else, we love the food and the great commercials on TV. However, we really...
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Feb 7, 20215 min read
As Promised, She's Never far Away.
I think so often of the poem my mother asked to be recited at her "Going Away Party," (as she insisted it be called), Death is Nothing at...
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Jan 23, 20214 min read
Thinking so Much of you This Week....
The inauguration was this week, Mom, which was so bittersweet without you. I watched in disbelief as this long-awaited day unfolded on...
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Jana
Jan 10, 20218 min read
Why Didn't Anyone Tell me Before I Re-created The White House Rose Garden?
In 2020, amongst the many other events in my life, I made the life changing decision to purchase 200 rose bushes for my yard. If that...
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Jana
Jan 1, 20212 min read
2021 Here at Last. Happy New Year!
After a rather busy two weeks of winter break during which I played catchup on so many things I have fallen behind on over the past nine...
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Dec 27, 20202 min read
A Day of Remembrance, Hope, and Wishes.
Our outing today started with remembrance. Remembrance of my mother and grandmother. First we visited them both at the cemetery....
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Jana
Dec 25, 20204 min read
A Very Covid Christmas.
I think our Christmas celebration was different this year, in two very marked ways. First, the very real absence of my mom. She would...
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Jana
Dec 13, 20204 min read
Silvia
The Bittersweet Tears Shed Over Graves are for Words Left Unsaid and Deeds Left Undone. Harriet Beecher Stowe Last week, as I was...
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Jana
Dec 12, 20203 min read
Move Over Tom Cruise. There's a new (and Much Younger) Maverick in Town!
Miles Montgomery Pete "Maverick" Mitchell I have a confession to make. Top Gun is one of my all-time favorite movies. I have...
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Jana
Dec 9, 20203 min read
Only in 2020 can Going Back to School be the Most Exciting Day of the Year!
Catherine and Graham started back at school this week, in person! The 2020 terminology for this exciting day was "The Second First Day...
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Jana
Dec 3, 20205 min read
It's Always Right Under the Surface.
Since my mom passed, three months ago today, I have been keenly aware of the unsettling feeling and nature of grief that descends upon me...
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Jana
Dec 1, 20202 min read
Lots of Love and new Herbs in our Garden!
Catherine took a break today from rollerskating in the backyard to tend to our new herb garden. First, I spotted her pulling out all the...
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Jana
Nov 27, 20203 min read
Thanksgiving, 2020-Style.
Our Thanksgiving was a bit out of the ordinary, like most of yours, I am sure. First of all, it's 2020, so nothing is ordinary. More...
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Nov 9, 20203 min read
Miles' Real First Day Kindergarten!
We have had a run of happy moments in the past few weeks, and today was yet another to add to the growing list. Twenty-twenty has been...
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Jana
Nov 7, 20203 min read
You did it! We did it! He did it! They did it!
Today Mom, you can finally rest in peace. And I mean really rest in peace. Although I don't imagine you are exactly resting, learning of...
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Jana
Nov 2, 20203 min read
We're Counting on You Tomorrow, Mom!
Disclaimer: For those of you hoping for a Trump victory tomorrow, you might want to stop reading here. I have made it a somewhat unspoken...
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Jana
Nov 1, 20203 min read
A Low-Key, COVID-Compliant Halloween Weekend!
It may not have been a traditional Halloween with trick or treating, but it was a lovely Halloween, nonetheless. It was low-key, which...
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Jana
Oct 29, 20203 min read
A Very Puggy Birthday Celebration - The First of its Kind Without Granny.
Our beloved Fitzy turned 11 today. My, how time flies. It seems like just yesterday that Garin and I brought him home when he was just 10...
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Jana
Oct 26, 20202 min read
Fall is Officially Here.
The weather has finally cooled off (at least for a week or so). It feels like it has been an eternity of triple-digit temperatures,...
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Sep 20, 20202 min read
Healing Slowly....
There are no words to describe the enormity of our loss. My mother. The children's grandmother. And no less, at one of the worst times...
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Jana
Aug 30, 20204 min read
Keeping Things Simple. Coronavirus Update -Day 172 and Counting...
In an attempt to stay sane amidst this pandemic and homeschooling ordeal I am trying to keep things low key when we do have time off on...
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Aug 29, 20202 min read
Escape From Homeschooling Hell to Paradise. Coronavirus Update - Day 171 and Counting...
I have the words to describe this week but do not have the wherewithal nor stamina to put them together cohesively. Yes, our first full...
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