My delightful daughter, tiggrrl, has made an interesting  "pay it forward offer" on her blog.  I am not really good at posting frequently, but I am willing to make a similar offer to the first 10 requestee's on my blog.

What is my greatest talent, you might ask.  I am a good listener, career counselor, and personal life coach.  So one offer is one ( Read more... )

 On Tuesday I begin my part-time job as a legislative assistant to Saqib Ali, the Delegate I helped get elected to the State Legislature.  I will be working 20-30  hours a month responding to complex constituent issues and reviewing information for possible legislative initiatives for Saqib.  Meanwhile, before I start working officially, I am ( Read more... )

OK.  Here's my list.  If anyone wants to suggest that I read something that I didn't itallicize, please let me know.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (7 books)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible -- most but not all
7 WutheringHeights - ( Read more... )

I just spent a wonderful 5 days at Disneyland with The Girl, Tiggrrl and Misha. We also spent a day at the San Juan Capistrano Mission, which I thoroughly enjoyed and which had some beautiful flowers in full bloom. After the Mission we went to the beach ( Read more... )

Over the past few months I have been assisting both my daughters in preparing for life transitions. When they were younger they would have nothing to do with my area of expertise which happens to be life and career transitions. But now that they are older, they indicate that they have found my help invaluable, even though I retired 5 years ago ( Read more... )

I have just signed up for a six-hour art class at an art creating and showing space called ArtWorks. It is called "Jump Start Into Painting" and will be this coming Saturday." It sounds great...I don't have to bring anything except enthusiasm and my lunch. I learned about it yesterday when I went to an art show there to see the work of my friend ( Read more... )

Papa Bear has been sick with an URI for 10 days now and is grouchy as an old bear. He can't help it, he is not used to being sick for more than 3-4 days. We were supposed to meet his sister, The Chaplain, this afternoon but he was too sick to go ( Read more... )

I have been watching a program on TNT called "I can make you thin" with a Brit named Paul McKenna. Anyway, I think his approach makes sense. Especially his 4 Golden Rules. So I am going to see if I can turn this weight thing around doing what he suggests rather than trying to diet which really doesn't work for me ( Read more... )

I have finally had to give in and ask for a podiatry consult on my sprained foot. I first hurt it back in October and after consulting with a KP advice nurse, we decided it was "only" sprained. The treatment, RICE. So after almost a week of that I was able to hobble around with an ace bandage as support. I was still wearing the bandage when I ( Read more... )