In Experience/ Family The Rock Gene It was inevitable that I would spend all my life working with and writing about gemstones and jewelry. If there is a rock gene,… Continue Reading →
In Experience Fly-By Looting In my backyard, right now, I have at least 30 to 40 robins, a half dozen or more cedar wax wings (including one absolutely… Continue Reading →
In Writing Life Almost Fossils Visitors to the Rancho La Brea “Tar Pits” are a bit incredulous when told large and powerful animals, such as the American lion, mastodon,… Continue Reading →
In Sports/ Travel The Muneate My sports ineptitude is legend. The phrase “can’t hit the broad side of a barn” was coined to describe my throwing prowess. So when… Continue Reading →
In Experience/ Sports Why I’m Not An Athlete It started when I was in junior high. President John F. Kennedy was determined to get us into shape, so we were condemned to… Continue Reading →
In Experience/ Japan/ Travel Sakura It’s spring in the Northwest and the flowering plum and cherry trees are luminous against the gray-green of the firs. I never see the… Continue Reading →
In Japan/ Sports/ Travel Naked Dignity When I went to Japan in the early 1980s, I expected to love many things: the simplicity of the architecture and the art, the… Continue Reading →
In Family Living Legend Twenty-plus years ago, when I decided to freelance full-time, my father wrote me a long letter extolling the virtues of corporate job security, medical… Continue Reading →
In Family The Gift of Laughter Mother’s Day was beautiful here in Oregon. The kind of day where my mom and I would have headed out for brunch, then headed… Continue Reading →
In Experience/ Family Holding On Our family had friends who collected. Not one thing in particular, but a little of lots of things in particular. Some of it was… Continue Reading →
