Month: June 2010

  • Now that it's summer and flowers abound I'm happy to get reacquainted with old faces. I mean old vases. Pulling them off of the high shelves and back corners of my cupboards. Liberating them to help show off the bounty of the season. Yippee! I was browsing over on Etsy and found some really delightful…

  • We recently visited a local buddhist retreat on a special day — they were giving dog blessings. It was so sweet to see them lined up and passing between two foo dog sentries to enter the meditation hall where they would receive their blessing. Our family was blessed as well. I like how that sounds:…

  • A shout out to the Boston Celtics today! Bear with me if you're not a fan. Bonne chance and luck o' the Irish in game six of the NBA Championship tonight guys. Boston leads the L.A. Lakers 3-2 in this best of seven series. I'm from San Francisco and count myself as a Golden State…

  • I've finally finished one out of hundreds of projects I have going. I usually complete one phase of a project — in this case that meant buying and cutting the plywood — then it sits while I move on to do another phase of another project (they don't call me Gemini for nothin'). I had…

  • Rosie Parsons It was my birthday on June 2nd and I've been eating cake ever since. We had a comfy family birthday dinner at home on the 2nd. Unless I'm going to be sitting at a long table under a grape arbor in Tuscany, settled in for an eight course meal, I don't really care…