Last Friday, I carpooled with friends to hike El Cajon Mountain, and when I got back, I saw that someone had bashed the windshield of my car. At first I thought it was a freak accident and looked around for whatever had hit my car — rocks, road debris, whatever — but I couldn’t find anything amiss. The windshield had been hit dead center, and in the middle of the rings of shattered glass was a long rectangular depression, so…
I regularly rediscover that the secret to happiness is learning to be happy with what you have. I always forget that bit of wisdom, and then I witness Life happening to other people, which reminds me all over again. It’s a challenge for most people, though; people usually want what they don’t have, and that want — it could be anything: a new car, a bigger house, a better job. They see what other people have and think to themselves,…
Over the weekend I drove a friend and my mom to Ramona for another batch of persimmons. My mom and I had finished the two 5-gallon bucketfuls we got at the end of October, and my friend had never been to a persimmon farm before, so we all went on Saturday to get some while they’re still in season. We ended up buying three buckets full of persimmons (each bucket being 20-30 pounds, for a total of 240-300 persimmons) and…
I read somewhere that no one really reads blogs any more and that blogging is the least effective of all forms of content marketing. People would rather get their information or entertainment by watching videos. So I guess I’m writing here for my own entertainment. I began this blog essentially as an online journal — a diary with a potential for an audience — and I didn’t care whether or not I had that audience. In the beginning, I didn’t have any….
When I first started blogging, I was on my way out of San Diego County to live in Orange County for around 15 years. But I’m a San Diego girl — I grew up here; all my old school friends are here or visit here often, and most of my family live here. I consider San Diego my hometown. When I moved back in 2012, I had to get to know San Diego again — this time as an adult….