When I substitute taught I worked sometimes at an elementary school who was very close to the Old Fire in 2003. On semi-cloudy days some students would panic, remembering the thick smoke over their homes as they evacuated from there. A week ago this was NOT our view. The Lake Fire burnt tens of thousands […]
I drove half an hour just for the opportunity to work in an office. I have been moving nonstop for almost a week, trying to take an opportunity of an absent husband to try to clean out a few things, then swimming upstream as the house again disintegrated around me. So I drove down to […]
I know, I’ve turned to the cute and rainbow side of the Force. I promised myself, if I kept it together, that in a year I’d buy myself a really cute and cool planner for the family. Up till now, we’ve been working in a big yellow one from Target, one that worked great. We […]
Back when I got my degree, I was a tech-y of sorts. Digital photography was starting to take off, but I couldn’t shake that brilliant gleam of white when the spectrum went a little to bright. I still think film did it best. I’ve been the computer software person in the home for years now, […]
California had 136 cases of the measles with the latest outbreak, with the unvaccinated and too young to vaccinate being a majority of the cases. Recently, a report in Science said that the measles, basically, erased immunity memory and created a window of opportunity for other diseases. Basically, if you had the measles, there’s a […]
