We had a lovely time at Ed Quinnel's barbecue. The celebration itself was basically a Mother's day - slash - Dad's birthday party. Though we have pictures of Art (see right), we were unable to get a picture of Ed's mother because, well... the camera power was so low that we lost our ability to ...  read more

On a Friday afternoon in Spring, I'm cleaning out our office at work.  Tidying up, bringing out the trash.  I start cleaning out our paper shredder (I LOVE to shred papers), which is jammed full of all kinds of little paper shreds. This particular shredder has a little sensor to know...  read more

You could say it had been coming for a long time. M and I were on rocky times since we got married. We'd had fights the night before we got married. We fought every night in Eugene. We fought in LA. So when we came to San Diego, we actually lived in a house all to our own. The rest had been apart...  read more

It was Thursday night and I realized that I had no business NOT taking a long weekend this weekend. The board meeting for the month was due to begin and we were all collectively sharing our plans for the weekend when I realized that everyone else had coincidentally (or so I thought) planned for a...  read more