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Be Careful What You Wish For

October 17, 2018October 17, 2018 Posted in California, chorus, dogs, garden, humor, last, memoir, nature, outdoors, relationships, worstLeave a comment

I’ve lived in my little house for seven years and four months. The neighborhood is about 48 years old, and the trees that are here are huge. My pie-shaped lot is wide and shallow in the back. Las Trampas Ridge is due west, beyond the freeway, but I could not see it because of the… Continue reading Be Careful What You Wish For

How Rustic Is It?

July 17, 2018July 19, 2018 Posted in beach, best, boyfriend, California, chorus, dogs, friends of friends, ghosts, hotel, humor, insects, memoir, nature, neighbors, ocean, outdoors, relationships, small town, trees, TV, vacation, WIFI, worstsLeave a comment

I have an old house two blocks from the Pacific Ocean in Monterey County. It’s a long story, but let’s just say that I had a really good divorce lawyer. At any rate, I rent it to friends only, not friends of friends. Here’s why: “What do you mean you have no WIFI?” “There is… Continue reading How Rustic Is It?

Lady Tenor in a Sea of Men

May 23, 2018 Posted in best, California, chorus, humor, J.J. Cale, memoir, relationships, singing, sister1 Comment

My chorus just did two back-to-back performances this past weekend. There are 120 of us this semester, with only thirty men. The men sing the bass and tenor parts, and five of us women sing the higher tenor part with the men. Why, you ask? Because we five gals have a lower range than the… Continue reading Lady Tenor in a Sea of Men