Category: Family


  • The Right Wrong Number | Prickly Pear

    Maybe wrong numbers are really right numbers and miss-information is exactly the information  needed.

  • Prickly Pear

    Prickly Pear

    I’ve been saying it for years, Someday, we’re going to have a hacienda…lots of rooms and California style outside living spaces where we can live, dream and create.

  • Let’s Pretend

    Let’s Pretend

    I love watching kids play. It’s like watching mini adults without all their protective shields. This weekend our three youngest grandchildren were at our house.  They may only be one year a part in age but in personalities – they aren’t on the same sphere.  Liam, our lego engineer had designed a lego RC (remote…

  • My mom and I share a common trait. It is refer to as white coat syndrome. This is when you go to the doctor and the people in white coats, which really doesn’t exist anymore, takes your blood pressure and everyone get concerned because you are a few seconds away from a stroke or perhaps…

  • My mother grew up in Chicago and in our childhood instilled the love for the Chicago she knew. There is, and always has been, one magical place that we too share her love for. That is the city block building with green majestic clocks on each corner that was once known as Marshall Fields on…

  • I got on a paddle board for the first time just about a year ago. It was thrilling. Something I’ve wanted to do since the first time I saw it. With my daughter and husband along side we headed out, kneeling in the middle of our boards, paddles in hand. I watched as my daughter…