• Native Garden - 4 Years Later

    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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  • Burbank Rally 2026

    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

    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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  • Completed native CA garden plan

    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

    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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  • Native garden plan with pathways

    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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  • Lawn before planting native garden

    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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  • Cassette tapes, Robert Edwards

    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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  • Doug and Mary Berry

    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 - Connie Nassios

    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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  • holding elderly hand

    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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  • Connie Nassios, piano and Shane Conley, French horn

    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…

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