It has been a great weekend. On Friday night mom and I watched National Velvet, which I had never seen before. It’s no wonder everybody was blown away by Elizabeth Taylor. She was 12 years old, or maybe even 11, when she made the movie, and she is just incredible. My favorite character is actually…

It’s been a busy week. I have been house and dog sitting for my sister in San Francisco, so spending my evenings there and then going to work in San Rafael pretty much every other day and then working from my sister’s place in between. We had second interviews for the permanent Executive Director position…

It is amazing how much I put off getting started on things that I am interested in doing, but have never tried before. I found all kinds of ways on Saturday morning to avoid starting the collaging work that I wanted to do. I had set my up supplies and got my workspace ready on…

It’s been a week since I posted, I meant to at least post at the end of last weekend knowing I probably wouldn’t do it during the week. It was an up-and-down weekend. On Saturday had a great afternoon, catching up with a friend in downtown Mill Valley. On my walk there I passed a…

Thanksgiving was a good day overall. Originally we were planning on celebrating at my sister Lori‘s house, most of the family was going to be able to be there. Unfortunately, Lori‘s family got sick so we had to pivot, which turned out to be easier to do than expected. Mom and I already had roast…

I haven’t posted in quite a long time. In fact I think this is the longest time I’ve gone without posting. I’ll blame it on being busy with the Interim Executive Director job and putting my extra time into NaNoWriMo. I have been getting up at 5 so I can do my writing at the…

Mom and I drove to my sister Michelle’s new place in the hills above Placerville. She and her husband, Tim, have 10 tree-filled acres with absolutely gorgeous views of the mountains. Without traffic they are about 2 1/4 hours from mom‘s house. Even though we left mid morning we still hit traffic because there are…

I did enjoy looking after the animals at Kieran and Kourtney’s last weekend. I got to catch up on Our Flag Means Death on Max, then met a friend for dinner in Davis. I got there early so went for a walk in the neighborhood and saw some sweet little cottages lit up with holiday…

This week has mainly been working and starting NaNoWriMo. I saw some beautiful moon views and sunrises on my morning walks.  We only had one group of trick or treaters for Halloween, not surprising as there aren’t many houses on the block and two streets over is a much denser, easier to walk neighborhood where…

I spent most of the weekend in San Francisco house and pet sitting. It was an opportunity to have a couple of lazy mornings on Saturday and Sunday – I still got up pretty early but enjoyed the time to journal and read. I had picked up some pumpkin pancake mix at Trader Joe’s so…