Yesterday was the 6 month anniversary of the disastrous Camp Fire.  We've been struggling with all the changes, grateful YES, but still a bit out of sorts. Our lives are much different now. We drive on different roads to different places. We view our house as a house, not a home...yet. They say it takes [...]

The heat is putting an end to my sugar peas. I pulled them out and we transplanted some zinnias in their place. Crossing my fingers for the zinnias-they don't like to be messed with. After planting some corn and squash, and fertilizing the citrus trees with an organic product, and then weeding around the grapes, [...]

In a boat...on the Sacramento River...with grandson, his girlfriend and my son-in-law...comfortable weather...find a spot on the river where shad are....caught about 20 of them...release them back into the river...perfect.

I am tired today. I tried to water a lawn...the old fashion way.  Here is what happened. Apparently the same country that wants to send homo sapiens to Mars has not perfected farm irrigation.  When we bought our new place, we read in fine print in the legal documents that we now were members of [...]

Lately I don't seem to have much of an urge to write on my blog or write new songs. I have been plucking the guitar strings a bit and blowing on the harmonica, neither of which I know how to really do. We've been working quite a bit in this new yard ... maybe that [...]

Is there anything as beautiful as a slightly clouded sunrise? Yes, a partially clouded sunset. Is there anything as tender as the touch of a newborn child? Yes, the touch of the elderly one as they acknowledge their next journey. Is there anything so hopeful as a spring blossom? Yes, the dance of a falling [...]

A few years before my father died, I went into his closet and I was stunned to see how few clothes he had in there. He was the kind who believed that a man only needed one coat, two pairs of shoes - one for yard work and another for going to church. My closet [...]

Several postings ago, I shared the progress I was making with a new song. Since then I added drums and a bass guitar and did some more mixing. It is good enough for me. I actually consider it one of the better songs I have written. What's it really about? It is about our shared [...]

At the start of my time working in higher education in the U.S., I taught managerial accounting to business majors, who mostly did not want to become accountants. It was required of them, so they could have an understanding of what "the numbers meant." I am fairly certain, even after taking my class, they still [...]