Isn't Good Sleep Wonderful?

It was between 1990 and 1992. I was living in Camarillo and working with the symphony. The house was only a corner lot California tract house, one of those that was built in the early 1960s, with the red block wall around the back yard. I had transformed the yard into a secret garden, complete with winding footpaths that were lined with large stones my friends and I had harvested from the beach a short eight miles away, a tropical garden with a waterfall and pond, and a protected beer garden with an uneven used brick floor and an old avocado tree as its roof...

I Was Shanghaied!

No, I didn't leave the internet, but I don't think I've ever not posted in five days. I didn't like it, but I had no choice. I was busy meeting a deadline for a client whose business is centered from both Ojai, California (in Ventura County) and Shanghai, China. In fact, it was really two sites, one in English and one in Chinese. Talk about brain pretzels! But the deadline was met and everyone's happy...

It's Really Spring!

Before last weekend's snowfall every sign of Spring was evident outside. There were fat robins singing away, jonquils blooming everywhere, and buds on the trees...