Tag: California

  • I’ve got a peaceful, easy feeling

    The desert. I promised I would write about the desert. A couple of months ago I visited my Dad and stepmother at their new winter home in Needles California. Needles is on the border of California and Arizona, located in the Mojave Desert. I mentioned in an earlier blog post that I grew up in Spokane,…

  • I am determined to post something on this blog 3 times a week, dammit. I was tempted not to today because I am feeling blah and cranky and irritable and I have nothing interesting to say. But then I remembered Flickr Time Machine. YES! Here is a photo from this day (January 28) in 2008.…

  • A pinhole shot from my trip to California of my niece (you saw her in my previous post). It’s honestly a miracle that she sat still for 13 seconds. My Zero 2000 truly is a magic wooden box.

  • The Santa Cruz Monica

    Sometimes I wonder If there is another me who still lives in Santa Cruz. The Santa Cruz Monica. The me who chose to be A creative writing major at UCSC. She had guts. She is the one who runs on the beach at sunrise. She is the one who surfs The Hook. She is the…

  • Highlights

    I’ve been spending some time updating the photos on older blog posts and have been enjoying the walk down memory lane. Some of these old posts document some really great quotes I’ve heard from random people over the years. Here are a few highlights: “I died in Spring and was resurrected in Winter.” – guy…