This month, let’s talk about community service. One definition is “a non-paying job performed by one person or a group of people for the benefit of their community”. Have you ever stopped to reflect on the extraordinary percentage of our local community that...
Fall has arrived with a burst of rust and gold colors and rain showers. I love the smell in the air when it rains and how my garden perks up. I do regret that I can’t hang laundry outside for a while. It seems like I was just enjoying the 4th of July Parade and here...
Irecently found an original hand thrown ceramic platter signed by Eric Norstad at the local thrift store, Heaven’s Closet. I wonder how that specific platter ended up in Cloverdale for me to discover, like a hidden treasure? It now sits in the center of our dining...
When I was as a kid, summer officially began Memorial Day weekend (never mind when the Summer Solstice occurred) when our family would pile into the station wagon and drive from Fairfax to our summer cabin in Healdsburg every weekend until Labor Day. Summer days would...
“I meant to do my work todayBut a brown bird sang in the apple tree,And a butterfly flitted across the field,And all the leaves were calling me.And the wind went sighing over the land,Tossing the grasses to and fro,And a rainbow held out its shining handSo what...
“Itwas one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade” Charles Dickens Put the patio cushions out or bring them in? That’s the March question. As soon as I put them out, the rain...
