As I was scanning my facebook feed this morning, I found an unexpected and sad announcement that a former vox-neighbor and blogger-friend, Paolo Presta, had died. Paolo was an Italian who lived near Toronto and wrote the blog “How We Eat”. He was a vibrant advocate of slow food and healthy eating. Though most of…
One of the things that a pale, befreckled person looks forward to during a beach vacation is reading. Reading on the shady deck in the morning, reading on the couch at midday and reading under an umbrella while out on the sand. And the book that I was most looking forward to reading was one…
Or Grandma, in this case, I suppose…. Some folks might say that some wedding in England was THE SOCIAL EVENT OF THE YEAR, but I can assure you that those folks are wrong wrong wrong. This past weekend, the Beloved and I ventured north to Sacramento to hang with and celebrate the birthday of our…
When I moved to San Diego from Northern Illinois, the great weather here almost compelled me to start doing things outside. One of the things that I started doing was playing tennis. I had played a little when I was in high school and college, though during college and grad school I played a lot…
Yesterday, Cori and Noelle came over to visit for Independence Day. Cori and I had vowed to play some tennis and so when they came over in the afternoon, we started talking about books and we looked at our rackets and talked about traveling. And then it was happy hour. Sorry, tennis. Maybe next time.…
So, The Beloved has a couple of friends from grad school that usually try to have a "girls weekend" somewhere fun. This year one of the pals is celebrating a milestone birthday and so wanted to do something special. It was decided early on that this trip wouldn't be just a girls weekend, but would…
Good weekend at the The Aerie this past weekend. The Big Event was hosting a dinner at our house taking advantage of Cori’s visiting from NorCal. She, Noelle and Janette (with hubby and kids) came over for drinks, dinner and dessert in the back yard. It was really a blast and Penny made a friend…
To say that I am thankful for all the wonderful things in my life is the biggest understatement that I can think of – other than perhaps that I have been more blessed than I could possibly have hoped for. I love and am loved everyday — which has been the most wonderfully unexpected joy…
I had a real pre-Halloween Treat yesterday. I had a chance to meet-up with and have lunch with current vox home-page spotlighted writer, RG Ryan. Though he doesn’t live here, he has ties to America’s Finest City and emailed me to see if we had some over-lapping time while he was in town – and…
So, last Fall we’re sitting in a very nice Las Vegas restaurant, having a great meal with two of our friends, PNS and Roomie. Now, Roomie’s popped up in posts from time-to-time. One thing you might not know is that he’s a HUGE Boston Red Sox fan. So as we were dining, Roomie was fidgeting,…
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