After all the recent rains, the the Santa Ynez Valley never looked more beautiful.
Read MoreMy great aunts Marion and Kathryn left their home and family in Butte, Montana to move to Los Angeles in 1928. A radical relocation in those days and yet they remained in the city for more than 40 years
Read MoreLike Santa he would always come at Christmas.
Read MoreLike Alice falling through the looking glass, we arrive in a mysterious space.
Read MoreWaiting for the "It's a Small World" ride at Disneyland a young man approached us. "You're Nancy Egan, aren't you?" I had no idea who he was.
Read MoreSlowly the sun slips behind the hill beyond the arroyo.
Read MoreI have been spending a lot of time with the Guadalupe over the last few months.
Read MoreLast May when we returned to Santa Monica for a visit, we were greeted by the same weather that had welcomed me when I moved to Ocean Park 20 years ago.
Read MoreDella became a widow on her 35th wedding anniversary. At 58 she was not sure what she would do.
Read MoreThe Golden Rollin' Belly, a pub with British pretensions and waitresses in wench costumes, had opened that summer just in time for the race season at the Del Mar track.
Read MoreAs I puzzled over the wide selection at Murray’s Cheese, the cheesemonger asked what I was reading. I said Hemingway's The Dangerous Summer. "Ah, a mahon," he recommended
Read MoreWhile I am not of the culture, I am listening, paying honest attention.
Read MoreHere in the high desert they say the sky is our ocean.
Read MoreIt was the toughest job I have ever had and one of the most rewarding.
Read MoreJust outside my window the garden brings hope and solace. It has lessons if we pay attention.
Read MoreIt was the first Saturday of spring, March 23, and the conditions couldn't have been better — 70-degree temps and an offshore wind.
Read MoreI am no stranger to graveyards.
Read MoreIt was my first time in the city, and I was, as New Mexicans like to say, enchanted.
Read MoreThe three of us, my sister Dianne, nephew Eamon and I, were standing on Jackson Street in front of what had once been my Grandmother Egan's house.
Read MoreWhen I was a young girl growing up in Butte, Independence Day was one of my favorite holidays, so wasn't hard for my sister Dianne to convince me to join her and my nephew Eamon for 4th of July weekend in in my old hometown.
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