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M is for Music

April 7, 2020April 6, 2020 Posted in antibiotics, care giver, dancing, humor, memoir, memorial service, music, nurse, singing2 Comments

(re-run) In a stressed-out world, one of the best things I can do for myself is to relax and de-stress by either singing music or dancing to it. Once a week I go off and sing with my chorus of 130 people. During those two hours, I don’t think about world news, White House news,… Continue reading M is for Music

Scavenger’s Delight

April 2, 2020April 1, 2020 Posted in aerobics, chorus, dancing, dogs, fires, gophers, hiking, humor, relationships, scavenger, WobbleLeave a comment

(re-run) My neighbors give away good stuff. Last year, a neighbor moving to Oregon kept piling stuff on his driveway for us to take until he got the house emptied. His wife and kids had gone on to Oregon ahead of him. I made a haul of a plastic wagon, flower pots, a rolling garden… Continue reading Scavenger’s Delight

Dog Training, the $100 Secret

April 1, 2020March 31, 2020 Posted in animal adoption, animal rescue, animal shelter, ARF, best, California, dog training, dogs, holidays, humor, memoir, relationships, secret, worstLeave a comment

(re-run) When I got a ten-week-old puppy the Monday before Christmas four+ years ago, I didn’t realize how hard it was going to be. I’d trained many a dog, but I did it within the context of my family, with my children at the ready to wear out the new pet. This time I was… Continue reading Dog Training, the $100 Secret

Designer Dogs

March 28, 2020March 29, 2020 Posted in dogs, humor, last, memoir, puppy, relationships4 Comments

(re-run) As I watched the end of the Oscars with a little dog cozied up in the chair with me and my sister asking when she could go to bed, I thought back on the man I met two nights before, the one who wanted to get a Doodle Dane, a cross breed between a… Continue reading Designer Dogs

Need an App for That

March 26, 2020March 26, 2020 Posted in BART, best, California, contractor, culture, dogs, Hamilton, humor, memoirLeave a comment

(re-run) Yesterday I went to the play Hamilton in San Francisco. I left my house at 9:45 a.m. and returned home at 7:15 p.m. That’s nine and a half hours that I was gone. I carpooled with a friend to BART, then joined up with two other women, and after a twenty minute BART delay… Continue reading Need an App for That

Prom with an Older Woman

March 24, 2020March 23, 2020 Posted in California, dad, dancing, dating, firsts, high school, humor, Monterey Bay, Prom, relationships, worstLeave a comment

(re-run) Alan was a sophomore when he got asked to junior prom by an older girl. He rented a tux from his date’s father, Mr. Cohen, at the local men’s shop in Monterey. Alan’s dad had to play chauffeur in his 1962 Chevy Bel Air, since Alan didn’t have his driver’s license yet. When they… Continue reading Prom with an Older Woman

Tattoos!

March 22, 2020March 21, 2020 Posted in athletes, best, butterflies, California, dancing, dogs, family, friends of friends, generation, humor, memoir, mom, music, relationships, skin, tattoos, worstLeave a comment

I look around and see athletes with tattoos, ex-military people with tattoos, mothers of small children with tattoos . . .

The Tree Whisperer

March 19, 2020March 19, 2020 Posted in California, gardeners, gardening, helpful strangers, humor, memoir, nature, outdoors, relationships, trees, worstLeave a comment

(re-run) I walk my neighborhood once or twice most days while walking Dog A and Dog B (I can’t walk them together since the newest little weirdo is nuts). Because I am a tree hugger and have planted more than sixty trees at my various houses over the years, I will free a distressed tree… Continue reading The Tree Whisperer

Forget Toilet Paper – I Need Chocolate

March 19, 2020March 18, 2020 Posted in California, chocolate, Coronavirus, Costco, Covid 19, desert island, humor, parking lot, shelter in place, toilet paper1 Comment

Last week I tried to go to Costco. I got there at 8:50 a.m. and the line to the front door was a block long. Because of Coronavirus. I turned around and left. Today, the second day of our shelter-in-place order, I ventured to Costco at 4:00 p.m. after a stealth visit with my sister… Continue reading Forget Toilet Paper – I Need Chocolate

The Upside of Self-quarantining — Is There One?

March 18, 2020March 18, 2020 Posted in 401K, California, Caltrans, Coronavirus, doctor, dogs, extrovert, hair color, hair dye, humor, make-up, Medicare, memoir, nursing home, party, ski resorts, skiing, social distancing, socializing, symphony, thrift store2 Comments

I have a science friend who used the term social distancing a month ago. I listened to her. I thought of my sis in a nursing home situation, the sister I visit daily, and thought to myself, I need to do this. Two weekends ago, I skipped a Motown review at a large theater and… Continue reading The Upside of Self-quarantining — Is There One?