WELCOME TO MEMOIRS AND MUSINGS

It was 1969 and Sherm brought home a joint to share with me after dinner, the kids were all finally asleep upstairs, Doug now 10, Charles...

You might want to consider taking the kids and going back home to Buffalo. Your husband will no doubt be here for quite some time. I just...

My daughter gave me this self-portrait when she was in high school and it's always on my wall close to my computer. I love looking at it....

Dan Druid had a lovely name and an unlovely fate. He named himself. I never did find out why he turned away from his family and chose a...

When I turned 80, my son Charles then 56, invited me backpacking. I jumped at the chance to spend time with him hiking through the woods....

I met Sara about 25 years ago through mutual tech writer friends in Marin. She’s a published poet from Ireland and was working her day...

The news if full of dire warnings about Omicron, the latest variant. It's reached the Bay area but not Chico, yet. We just had a lovely...

Everyone said that my father was handsome, and I guess he was, in a neat dapper way with his curly hair flattened with pomade, his...

Summer was a rich time for an observer like me. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, I could swim, build drippy castles on sand bars, catch...

I loved having babies, but for my first, I was really a baby myself. Or more accurately a spoiled princess, accustomed to having life’s...

I’ve always been an observer of life. Always. My first clear memory is of standing in my crib watching my mother and sister scream at...

Well, I haven’t had a whole lot of experience with being rejected and when I was soundly dumped, it was very puzzling to me. Why?...

I decided this morning to write it out, as I just couldn’t face talking about it yesterday, especially late in the day. So here is my...

The year Sherm and I got married, 1956, was the last time the Canadiana, known as The Crystal Beach Boat, brought passengers to the huge...

1905 (before Buffalo Seminary) Hanging over the fireplace in the Buffalo Seminary library The 1950s My classmates in the cafeteria. So...

I had just turned 16 in April of my senior year in high school. The Buffalo Seminary was an all-girls prep school for the upper crust in...

I wish I could say that I adored my grandmother, but she was a bit of a sourpuss, as far as I could tell. Her children, my mom, Dotty,...

He had yet to become famous, had yet to become handsome, I remember only a skinny, quiet, nerdy-looking boy of 12 when I was 10. So...

As far back as I can remember, I kept having crushes on women. Maybe it was because my mom was a beautiful woman and I wanted her love....