For weeks and months I lay in bed at night trying to imagine what Life would be like in Cali (oh! see how I’ve picked up the local lingo?!) I pictured hours at my writing desk alone—David working long days at his first new job apart from each other in 25 years—with a mixture […]
Can I go home now?
You know when you’re on Day 7 or 10 of vacation, the thrill of the hotel room worn off, a little too much sun and fun, just wanting your morning bowl of cheerios with a banana (instead of yet another buffet) and yearning for your bed, your pillow, your stuff, instead of the rabbit hutch […]
Val’s Book Launch
How honored I am to say I know the amazing Val Brelinski, and how thrilled to have been at her official Book Launch last night at Book Passage in the Ferry Building in San Francisco. Just the woman/mentor for any ennui-filled soul: generous, lovely and relentlessly supportive. Though she writes autobiographically about her devout […]
Constant Clutter, OY!
Moving is all about finding new places to put your sh*t. And those places might not yet exist if you sell most of your furniture but not all the contents thereof. Am I really so locked into “everything in it’s place”-Donna Reed-middle-aged-menopausal-rigidity??? Instead of a panic attack that spurred me to solutions, the […]
Land HO! Palo Alto!
This very morning, Wed 7/29, we sighted port and let down anchor. (Alright, quite the tortured metaphor, sorry! Especially to these drought-stricken Californians…) It’s 11:15pm here, I’ve now settled in after 12 straight hours of way-too-old-for-this unpacking in unusually HOT weather. Hey, wait a minute! Isn’t this supposed to be 70’s all year round?? Thank […]
Detour! Boulder Dam, 1930’s technology, whoa!
So, change of plan. Instead of Grand Canyon Day 3 (see previous post), we hit on the idea of stopping at the Hoover Dam. Hotter than hell, now we’re at 120 degrees on the Nevada/Arizona border (the Colorado River forms the state border—did you know that?!) Another iconic photo shoot, another overwhelming enormous monster of […]
The Canyon, Day 2, Yikes!!
Yeah, okay, the pictures do/don’t do it justice. The memory of the awesomeness is sparked when I see the pics, but at the same time these are so iconic they seem unreal, too. What was entirely real was my anxiety level. I totally buy what a lady on the trail relayed, her Fun Fact: […]
Good God Grand Canyon!
Holy Cow! It is everything and more…one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen, on a trip with many. Think maybe this’ll take more than one post? Day 1—for those of you who’ve done the Park, you’ll know exactly our route. We parked at the Visitor Center and then did the 3-mile hike/walk on the […]
Petrified Forest…surprise!
Heading toward the Grand Canyon in Arizona on Interstate 40, we came upon signs for the Painted Desert in the Petrified Forest National Park and after some “discussion” (um…me, whining a bit, “how much time will it add?) we do the detour. The route ends up adding only 15 minutes, if you don’t count the […]
Gail Ansel 