This morning I woke up early and watched the day dawn. It was much better weather than the last two days I’ve been here so after breakfast I hiked the 3 mile loop up the ridge trail. I could see snowy mountains in the distance, absolutely stunning. Later I did my ‘work’ for the day-…

It was a different kind of Mother’s Day for me today, not getting to celebrate in person with my children or my mom. It’s been a few years since I’ve celebrated Mother’s Day with all of my kids, since they’ve either been away at college, or living in New Zealand. I did get to talk…

I learned that the land the retreat center sits on was owned by a family who originally had about 1500 acres and used this as their vacation home. The two sons sold off their thousand or so acres because they weren’t interested in spending time in Cody. The developer they sold the land to divided…

Got up early today for the drive from Salt Lake to Cody.  The terrain alternated from steep multi-colored canyons to vast flat stretches of scrub. I saw quite a few antelope running across the highway, and there were many signs warning motorists to look out for animals on the roadway. I often drove for an hour…

I hit the road by 5 AM on Wednesday, with a 10 1/2 hour drive ahead of me I wanted to get an early start and miss as much traffic as I could. I love being on the road as the day dawns, and I got to see a beautiful sunrise as I travel down,…

On Monday I was at the park with Javi and a group of students from University High School walked by laughing and joking. I thought momentarily about how lucky they are to be at this point in their lives when there is so much opportunity and adventure ahead of them, but I also remembered how…

How do I know when I need to push myself or when I should just let go and let things move of their own accord? Sometimes I am not sure if I am pushing myself enough and other times I wonder if I’m pushing myself too much. Or maybe I’m just doing exactly what I…

The weather has been all over the place during my time at Kieran‘s house. On Saturday I kept all the blinds closed and the fans on because it was over 90°, but by Monday it only reached the mid 60s and we got rain overnight! Definitely weird weather for May.  It’s been a lot of…

Today I took mom to Sonoma to visit her friend Ann. It’s so neat to see them together, often talking about when they were single and living with a bunch of other nurses 60 years ago. (That’s when their rent in San Francisco with some thing like $150 a month!) Afterwords we stopped at Larson…

I’ve had a couple of fun social days where I’ve been enjoying the great weather and gone out to dinner, which has been very nice. Monday was my last time looking after Javi for awhile. Since we had a longer time together, I took him first to the park with the Chuck-it and he raced…