Some Life Advice

I lost a dear friend this week. Decades ago, when I first moved to California and knew literally no one, he and I would spend at least some time together every single day. No doubt that was helped by the fact our apartments were interior ones, back-to-back on the second

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Making Friends One Paw at a Time

Our cat Moose started spending time at another family’s home down the street from us about 6 months ago. I’d previously met and talked to the son and today, when I stopped by to check on/retrieve Moose I met the mom and daughter. We had a delightful conversation, and I

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Reunion & Family Oh My!

All of the pictures in this post, and more, are available in full resolution over in a Google photo album. We just got back from a fabulous trip to New York and Washington, D.C. The proximate reasons were to spend time with Caroline, who lives in Brooklyn, attend my 50th

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Traitor!

Our cat, Moose, is a night owl. So much so that he sometimes doesn’t come home at night. Which concerns us, particularly me, since there are occasional coyotes and even mountain lions that pass through the area. Besides, as a black cat he isn’t all that visible when crossing streets,

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Finding Lost Cats

Our cat, Moose, was unaccounted for recently for well over 24 hours, far longer than he’d ever stayed away from home before. We eventually found him — safe & sound, enjoying some private hunting/hiding time a bit further from home than he’d been known to go before — but were

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Reflections on the Late Show

Last night we got to attend a taping of Colbert’s The Late Show. It was a lot of fun, and definitely worth doing if you’re a fan and can coordinate getting tickets the next time you visit New York City. It pretty much played out as I expected. But there

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Rock On!

Our daughter is pursuing an audio engineering career in Brooklyn, New York. While she’s done a number of projects that have gone public (including a Grammy nominee) I’m pretty sure this is the first album listing her as the recording engineer. It gives me great pride to see my daughter

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Diego

October, 2005 – November 8, 2019 He was picked up as a stray in Redwood City at the age of two months. I always wondered what those first weeks of his life were like — Pomeranians are small, so he must’ve had to work hard for whatever food and drink

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A Good and Caring Man

Ray McHugh, Barbara’s dad, passed away, peacefully, on December 27, 2017. He lived a long life, offering and finding much joy along the way. Always curious, he never stopped learning. Always gracious, he never missed a chance to share even just a few words with passersby. Always kind, he looked

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The Old Truths Must Be Preserved!

My brother Art & my sister-in-law Diane recently got back from a trip to western Germany, where, among other things, they were digging into the Olbert family tree (Diane’s been doing a lot of research into family history over the last few years).

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