Happy Birthday Mom!! My mother tells the story "… I was probably nine or ten, when my father came to Glenn county to buy a dairy ranch. When he returned home to Ferndale, (where we lived)…

My childhood home is not the same. Yes love is there, that hasn't changed, but the feeling it gave has. The ground under foot is tender, the seeds of faith planted gently in an aching space, a longing emptiness, a…

Homecoming. Holding on to each moment. Standing still, blooming strong with a touch of make believe. Happiness ever after….

Daisy, the miracle child, my Godchild, a bundle of sweetness. Daisy with baby daisies, in her backyard, while we shared the afternoon together. The last time I saw Daisy she was several weeks old, had a feeding tube and had…

  After a wonderful day spent seeing Shelley and then Tom, and my Godchild Daisy, I went to Chico to give a talk about French Ness in the shop called Nantucket. I chatted. Gathered there were my mother, my brother Marty, Sister…

At the first ray of light the farmer sets out for work, rice harvest is in full swing in the Sacramento Valley. Either Mother Nature has worked her wonder in their favor, or not… they know the moment their harvester's…