This blog post brings you wishes for a Happy New Year filled with joy, peace, love, the best of health, and much success in all your endeavors. What a year this has been! I feel fortunate to have time to reflect on this past year. I take this time to [...]
Monday was International Cat Day. In honor of this special day, this is an Ode to Yoga Cats. I am featuring some kitties who have come to know me (and I have come to know them) through my online yoga sessions! Today's featured YOGA CATS are my great fans! [...]
Yesterday's Celebration of Life for my father-in-law, Bob Boxberger was special indeed. A Goliath of a man, Robert Boxberger, otherwise known as Bob or "Boxie", passed away on January 10, 2021. The event had been postponed a few times due to the seemingly never ending surges of this pandemic. I [...]
East of the Mountains You hear that expression a lot living here in Seattle. East of the mountains is where we go for sunny warm weather in the summer, apples in the fall, skiing in the winter, and gorgeous wildflowers in the spring. Last Saturday, Rick and I drove through [...]
The setting: Spring 1988, Kita-Narashino, Japan. I stood, not alone, in the cool and quiet of the night under a cherry tree in full blossom. Rick was with me. We were both ESL teachers at Margaret's School and every Friday evening, the staff went out to the marui sushi or [...]
