Category: Random

Me talkin to myself

  • A while ago, I had a lovely lunch with a friend. I brought her a very small vase with a couple of dahlia blooms from my garden. Last week at our Nia dance class, she returned the vase with these pretty pink blooms, geraniums, I think. I put the vase in the cup holder in…

  • It’s dark now at 6 a.m. Summer has flown by, rich in big moments for my family — love and death and tenderness. And all around us, as always, the great cacophony of the world. Autumn’s coming, chill mornings, heavier skies. Before letting summer go I want to savor a few moments, not the big…

  • I’ve been to a few concerts over the decades, big names, medium names, small wonderful names. But seeing Jon Batiste last night at the incomparable Cuthbert Amphitheater in Eugene, was the first time I ever saw a performer get a standing ovation for just walking on the stage at the opening of the concert. What…