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“This is an Estimate of the Cost of Your Pregnancy” – My Parent’s First Investment in Me
“This is an Estimate of the Cost of Your Pregnancy” – My Parent’s First Investment in Me I have many family papers from my parents that I have not gone through for a while. Today I was hunting for a particular item among my English family papers, which I could not find, but through that...
Writing in the Shade of Trees – The Three-Year Anniversary, Milestones Along the Way & The Path Ahead
Writing in the Shade of Trees - The Three-Year Anniversary, Milestones Along the Way & The Path Ahead The three-year anniversary of Writing in the Shade of Trees is soon coming up. At first, I thought it was the second anniversary, and that is how I started the first draft of this...
The Sad Thing is That I’ve Lost my Ability to Write Under the Shade of Trees…It’s Like Losing an Old Friend. I Mourn the Loss of That Beautiful Majestic Oak tree. And the Shade it Brought…and the Joy it Brought.
The Sad Thing is That I’ve Lost my Ability to Write Under the Shade of Trees…It’s Like Losing an Old Friend. *** My friend, Matt, lost the 150-year-old oak tree that was the dominant presence and the prized possession of his backyard, in the recent tropical storm to hit Los Angeles on Sunday,...
Our Bishop Alemany High School 55th Year Reunion, for the Class of 1968, is Now Complete – And the Cake was Decorated in Our School Colors of Garnet & Gray
Our Bishop Alemany High School 55th Year Reunion, for the Class of 1968, is Now Complete - And the Cake was Decorated in Our School Colors of Garnet & Gray *** Our 55th year high school reunion is now over. The venue was perfect for the size of our gathering, the cake was decorated in our...
The Blessings of Pink – In Pink, She Had Wandered for a Time & Inside the Pink Purse of a Five-Year-Old & When She Sang, She Brought Tears to My Eyes
In Pink She Had Wandered for a Time My oldest granddaughter, the firstborn of my firstborn, for a time wandered, finding new foundations, setting and re-setting her bearings, navigating the course of her life at that time, moving here, moving there, both physically and internally, negotiating the...
The Flag of Ukraine I Passed on One of My Walks & Conversations, Emails, & Expletives – Прапор України, який я передав під час однієї зі своїх прогулянок, розмов, електронних листів та лайливих слів
The Flag of Ukraine I Passed on One of My Walks & Conversations, Emails, & Expletives Прапор України, який я передав під час однієї зі своїх прогулянок, розмов, електронних листів та лайливих слів The cover photo of this posting is one I took on a walk in the neighborhoods in the hills...
Small Treasures – The Orange Fluffy Stuffed Cat – When She was Sitting Up in the Hospital Bed, with One Hand Resting Upon Her Cheek, She Would Just Stare in Peaceful Contemplation at the Orange Cat, that Sat in Quiet Repose Upon the Wooden Windowsill, Four Feet from My Mom’s Wondering Eyes
Small Treasures – The Orange Fluffy Stuffed Cat A fluffy orange stuffed cat, a source of comfort, though not the toy or comfort of a child, sits on the back of the sofa in my study, the only stuffed animal upon the green and wine-colored plaid sofa. The cat’s color is not overly...
A Tale of Two Houses on the Road, Originally Dirt, That I Grew Up On
The street in the photo looking up towards the mountains is the present day view of the street that I grew up on. In my early years, until about when I was seven or eight, it was a dirt road. The road at the end of this street is San Fernando Road, the Old 99 Hwy. Railroad tracks are on the other...