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…

I saw some really cool stuff on my walk this morning – a tree with a heart shaped scar on it, a rock with a heart drawn on it, and the fog settling in the trees above my old elementary school. This weekend we cleaned up the backyard at my mom‘s house. My sisters, my…

Wow, I am so glad I took a day and disconnected from pretty much everything. I don’t know the last time it was that I had a full day without looking at my phone. I didn’t even turn my phone on today, so I had no idea what time it was or if anybody was…

I headed out for a three day camping trip at Bodega Bay and decided to take the long way via highway 1. My sister very kindly let me use her sprinter van so that I could see what it was like to camp in a slightly more luxurious style, something that I think I will…

On Sunday, Mom and I got out for a walk in the afternoon and ended up over at my elementary school. There were kids and parents practicing baseball on the field, other kids riding bikes and scooters, just your typical Sunday afternoon. As we walked around the yard commenting how lucky they were to go…

I finished reading my 100th book of the year today. This isn’t the 100th book I’ve read since the start of this calendar year, it’s the 100th book I’ve read since the start of my year starting on my birthday, July 3. And I’ve been recording the names of all of the books that I read since…