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Native Garden – 4 Years Later
The best part about having a native garden is that you don’t HAVE to tend to it. Or blog about it. You can just go on about your life and…
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Having a Voice
March 28, 2026 was a great day for gathering with like-minded people who are unhappy with what is going on in the current U.S. Government administration. I was surrounded by…
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Native Garden – 1 Year Later
It’s been just about a year since we planted our front yard native garden. During the winter, the plants looked like they weren’t going to make it. But with the…
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Grass to Native Garden – Last Day
Today we got to see the fruits of our planning effort. When setting out the plants we bought yesterday, we realized we needed a few more to fill out the…
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Grass to Native Garden – Day 3
The title says Day 3, but it’s really been 3 weeks since the last work was done. These things take time. Actually, before today, Kenny felt that there might be…
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Grass to Native Garden – Day 2
If you are following along, this is day 2 of transforming a grass lawn into a native Southern California garden. Today was about removing soil to get ready for sheet…
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Grass to Native Garden – Day 1
Considering we live in Southern California and our water situation is getting tight, I thought it might be a good idea to look into replacing our small front lawn with…
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Revisting Robert Edwards
From January 25, 1998 to April 11, 1990, I went to a little studio at 5554 Mammoth Ave. in Sherman Oaks, CA once every 2 weeks or so to have…
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You Are All I’ll Ever Need
I have had the good fortune to have wonderful in-laws. Not only were they were helpful and supportive without being intrusive in any way, they set an excellent example for…
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Let Me Go
There are probably few things as painful as the un-mutual end of a relationship. I s’pose you could say that things play out the way they’re meant to, but that…
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Mom
Today would have been her 90th birthday. We lost her a little more than 2 weeks ago – April 21, 2016. I was holding her hand. I miss her terribly.…
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Accompanying
My daughter is about to turn 18 in a couple of days. Shaking my head in disbelief – time is such a seemingly elastic thing. And because it is the…