March 16, 2018 Two weeks into March and my calendar, which was empty when I found our desert trip was cancelled, is amazingly full. I would have missed some very fine events, the first being an evening at Grizzly Peak… Read moreEarly Spring – 2018
Classical music has played a major role in my life since I was very young, and in old age it means even more. I am so lucky to live in the Rogue Valley where it gets richer and fuller every… Read more2018 Winter music and more
It is only early February but the winter has been wonderfully exciting and varied so far. The winter blues have not surfaced, and I suspect they wont. Two events have dominated the past few weeks and made my life simply… Read moreWinter 2017-2018
Breaking a vow to myself to quit traveling on holidays, I went to San Francisco and then Pittsburgh for Thanksgiving, and am off to Whidbey Island for Christmas. You would think I would know better by now than to make… Read moreThanksgiving 2017
November is always a big month with the Thanksgiving feast and holiday dominating all. But it also contains my birthday, election day on alternate years, and the anniversary of the death of my sorely missed husband Eric, who died 6… Read moreEnd of the year – 94th birthday, November 2017
Last week I watched a most astonishing event. I was on my way back from a walk in the old-growth forest above Natural Bridge on the upper Rogue River when a young man hefting a kayak passed me. I stopped… Read moreExtreme Kayaking-October 2017
This will be a short post, because I am so full of an OSF/OLLI experience that I feel impelled to share it, particularly with friends who live in the Rogue Valley. So much has happened in my wonderfully exciting life, it… Read moreOctober-2017; UniSon
What a dazzling, marvelous event. On Saturday, September 26, we did a street painting on the intersection of Faith and Wine. It was a stellar occasion, with lots of neighbors, friends and their relatives of all ages from small children… Read moreStreet painting, August 2017
August was such a dazzling month I have to write another summer post. It began with the annual Britt Classical Festival, in which Jenny has played viola for 17 years. She arrived after a week at Coos Bay where she… Read moreLate summer-2017
I had a serious warning about loss of near memory lately, so want to record some special events in July now, in case I wipe them out. The first was a wonderful week in Brookings with Ann Di Salvo. We… Read moreEarly summer-2017
