A Note From the Rebellious One

In the previous post I wrote about a high school teacher who taught his class a wonderful lesson by accident.
When I wrote about this for a class in the summer of 2000,  I thought how wonderful it would be to contact Mr. K and let him know what an impact his accidental lesson had made [...]

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Rain!

I’m sitting at my desk, trying to think of what to write today.  I’m trying to post every day this month to get back into the habit of blogging.  I’m distracted though.  Rain.  Soft, steady, clean, wet, fresh rain.  What a welcome sight, smell, sound, and feeling!
I’m sure at some point later this year I [...]

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No Hay Mal Que Por Bien No Venga—Part Two

Over the next three years, my father was sent to specialist after specialist.  We lived in San Jose, less than an hour from San Francisco.  He had to go to UC San Francisco Medical Center for a series of treatments.  The visits to the clinic took all day.  He couldn’t go alone so we took [...]

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Let It Be

When I was growing up I was exposed to a wide variety of music at home.  As far back as I can remember, my parents played records of  music in Spanish and listened to Spanish language radio.  I learned to dance by putting my feet on top of my dad’s feet and having him move [...]

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Learning, Childhood, and Positive Memories

My older daughter works as a nanny for a family that has a 3 year old girl and a 5 year old boy.   She has been working for them since September and has grown quite attached to the kids.
When she first started working with them, she would call me and ask me for recipes for [...]

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Saving Memories

While watching ABC World News on March 18th, my attention was captured by a story reported by John Mackenzie.  The story, which they called Saving Memories From Alzheimer’s Reach, tells about a project that records interviews with Alzheimer’s patients, in an effort to preserve each person’s unique story before it is forever lost to the [...]

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The Last Lecture

BACKGROUND
When Randy Pausch, a Computer Science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer, he made the most of the time he had left and of his love of teaching.  The university invited him to give an honorary “last lecture” which, at many schools, is a tradition where retiring professors are invited [...]

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A Skeleton of a Surprise

One day last week, I noticed that the glow in the dark skeleton that I had hung from one corner of the carport was gone. My heart sank. I haven’t lived here very long; only since August. I wondered before putting up that skeleton if it was safe to do so here. I’ve felt safe [...]

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Fossils

You know the saying about one door closing and another opening? Well…
Having recently moved to this area, I don’t know anyone here. Well, I know the property manager and I know one blogging friend. I wanted to meet more people so I searched craigslist.org for groups and classes that might lend themselves to meeting people [...]

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Seek And Ye Shall Find (*Or Ask And Ye Shall Be Given)

I eat a lot of yogurt. Sometimes up to three of those little cup-ish packages from the store. However, like the price of everything else, the price of those little individual servings has gone way up. I am paying about 69 cents a piece (if I use 3 per day, this makes it over [...]

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