When I was working, Apple gave employees the week between Christmas and New Years, and sometimes a day or two before or after. I would...

We spent Christmas Eve at Treehouse Tavern listening to music and eating an assortment of hors d’oeuvres. Treehouse Tavern is a 180...

Last year, a friend suggested that I join ASMAC, the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers. I was hesitant. Although I...

I can’t remember the last time that I attended a choral concert. All of the chorus works I’ve heard in recent years have been part of an...

Planning a trip requires a great deal of research and knowledge of the logistics required to make things go smoothly. I love planning...

Last year my friends convinced me to grow vegetables. Reluctantly, I got two elevated, raised beds for my back porch and then found an...

Emerging from sheltering at home is like being born again. Many things that I took for granted before, are supremely enjoyable now like:...

On March 18, 2020 (see The Journey Begins) I started writing about my time at home during the pandemic. At that time, the authorities...

I am from a long line of orphans. Perhaps the line isn’t that long, but abandoned babies don’t have the luxury of genealogy. My...

A few weeks ago I took a workshop on the literary essay, led by Perrin Kerns (image below). I didn't know what a literary essay was when...

The hotels industry reopened this week in Monterey, so I booked a room at the Spindrift Inn on Cannery Row. Situated on the beach, the...

Today I took a drive down the coast from San Gregorio to Capitola. When I passed through Santa Cruz, the temperature had risen to 80...

For decades, differently abled people have been fighting for the right to participate in society. Accommodations for wheelchair users are...

One of the benefits of working at Apple for 22 years was that I was on the forefront of all new technologies. I was required to try out...

When the shelter-in-place order began in March, 2020, I starting writing a blog post a day. Back then, it seemed all we had to do was to...

I've taken 1,693,819 steps since March 16. That's an average of more then 12,000 steps per day, every day, seven -->

Dmitri Shostakovich’s first opera, The Nose, is a satirical tale of a St. Petersburg official who wakes up without a nose—just a -->

I purchased a ticket to watch the Bayreuth (Germany) production of Tannhäuser, but the streaming link never arrived. Glen and I were -->

I am a traveler. After 16 trips last year and 2 earlier this year, it was difficult to have my travel life come to a screeching -->

The highlight in any true fan of Richard Wagner’s music is a visit to Bayreuth to attend the annual Bayreuther Festspiele to hear -->