My granddaughter, Samantha, moved to San Diego just over a year ago, in August of 2018. Right before she moved...days before...she finally started dating the woman she had been crushing on for more than two years, Susan. Almost simultaneously Susan also moved to the West Coast, to Oakland, California. Coincedence? Plan? I don't know and am not ( Read more... )

To get to San Diego from Philadelphia, you get on an airplane and fly and fly. If I fly non-stop, it takes five and a half hours, longer if I have to change planes. I get off the plane, and I am in a very different sort of country from Philadelphia. Various species of palm trees instead of maples, oaks, and butternuts. Interstate highways forming a ( Read more... )

I'm back from a great four-day trip to San Diego and itching to write about it before it entirely recedes from my memory. I'm pretty much trapped in my apartment today and tomorrow by the Made in America Festival which is taking place loudly a few yards from my building. Whole Foods, my drugstore, Target: all usually within a two-block walk, are ( Read more... )

My summery summer continues ( Read more... )

Today the last pieces of furniture I bought for the apartment were delivered, and I have a better idea of how the place will look once I finally, finally get every box unpacked ( Read more... )

Sometimes the times change as slowly as the passing of a sleepless night. Other times, change comes like a whirlwind. On that spectrum, the pace at which my life is changing right now is closer to the whirlwind than the sleepless night. That girl in the icon...that young woman...is responsible for setting the whirlwind in motion ( Read more... )

This video should put a smile on your face:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/24/science/earth/video-polar-bears-snow-san-diego.html

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