Pat and Kathie

When I was still a sweet young thing, I enlisted in the Air Force and went to the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, to lea...

I headed down to the Old Police Headquarters sale today hoping I would be able to get a look inside. Built in 1938 and located on prime wate...

After leaving the Marston house, I headed down to Sherman Heights to find Villa Montezuma , another historic place the San Diego Historical ...

Remember the guy, George Marston, that built our beautiful Spanish mission style museum on Presidio Hill in 1929. The same guy built the Mar...

My eyes perked up reading the paper this week. Three important San Diego historical sites were closing to the public this weekend. Villa Mon...

Bravery comes in lots of forms, like taking on land developers or a 13 year old coxing old ladies . I have a particular fascination with c...

I can imagine Kathie wanting to do something like this . (Don't even ask, Kath - you know I'm not into swimming!) What I don't ...

It's a hermit weekend to stay away from people and rest up. I've had a generic jail cold all week. I was sick five months out of th...

My friend, Jan North, reminded me today that today is Robert Burns birthday. Jan and I walked 150 high altitude miles in Bhutan a year ago a...

I just want to say how proud I am of my daughter Kelly. In the wake of having her dream of getting her BSN at USC dashed by her negligent, ...

You've got to say that just a certain way, du-u-u-de, string out the "u" like the guy on this video. My friend, Pat, thinks I ...

Ever wonder where that phrase "dead man walking" came from? Remember in the death penalty movie, Dead Man Walking , how the prison...

This morning while eating my breakfast, I've enjoyed Joan's pic of a newborn in our nursery, cracked up over Thor getting into the...

"Just a few hours of 2008 left, the last time I'll write 2008, it'll never be 2008 again", I thought when I signed my last...

A major catastrophe has happened over at JournalSpace. Both of their drives have gone down - hopefully to be repaired but the prognosis is ...

In 1977, the US was in an economic recession, New York City experienced a massive blackout on a hot July night, Ethiopia's president was...

I can remember in the 1950's my mother would go off to cake class and come home with a doll cake , almost too beautiful to eat. We lea...

OK, I've not been blogging much lately - except at work (for real!) - because I've been busy painting, quilting, etc., but I just ha...

The little guy in the Mystery Photo is an astronaut, one of twenty six fire hydrants in the seaside village of Carlsbad, just 15 minutes up...