Another page in the story of our family was turned this week, but a familiar one. This week we put our tiny baby girl (who is, in actuality, a smart, confident, 19 1/2 year old young woman) on an airplane to return to California for her sophomore year of college at University of the Pacific, my husband’s alma mater. We […]
August: Beginnings and Endings
August always seems like a time of beginning and ending, a change of season when one doesn’t actually exist. I think this is largely because our kids’ school has always started in August, and because for many years as I taught, it was back to school/work for me as well. And I love that feeling, that shift to a new […]
If a tree falls in the forest…
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make any sound? It always annoyed me, that old philosophical question. Seemingly deep but mostly reduced to a cliché, trite and shallow from overuse. Well. Then it suddenly applies. I have spent a lot of time wondering about the things I do all […]