Once the cold winds blew the crispy, sienna stalks of dill, making a rattling sound as the empty pods rubbed together, I knew I should have gathered those seeds for next season much earlier. It’s sad to admit when summer is over. Even when summer… Read More »Lessons from My First Garden
Will I help transform Cullom’s downtown as much as I helped transform Sunnyvale’s?
The best sign that we were heading into a happy-ending sunset came on Monday night. Our new home has a private Facebook group for sharing updates and requests in our community. As I checked the new posts, I saw something I didn’t quite believe at first. The latest post was a photo of our destination at sunset.
My father was a machinist who helped build Fermi’s lab in Chicago before the war. He told us he had been invited to go to Los Alamos to work on the gadget.
A headline in the LA Times caught my eye today. It is George Skelton’s article called “Why Californians are Fleeing this Once-Golden State.” While we’re leaving California, I don’t necessarily view what we are doing as “fleeing,” but I’ll describe our reasons and let you,… Read More »Fleeing California: Half Complete
We’ve loved our time in Sunnyvale, but it’s time to leave “Crow City” and move to Cullom, Illinois. There is more of a connection between the two places than you may have thought. The first ever investor in semiconductors and I are from that same… Read More »Eastward, Ho!
Why I vote…
I vote because we *are* our leaders and we must chose wisely.
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I was planning to let Joan Didion’s demise pass without comment. Then… As I close out the year with my annual ritual of finishing some of the many books I’m reading, I found passages in Ralph Keyes’ book, The Courage to Write, assessing and praising… Read More »One reason she writes
The boxing nun and the burned flag made me smile. Something in the news got me digging around in my office in my box labeled “Matt” and I came across them both at the top of the remnants of Matt’s life. My friend, mentor (and… Read More »Remembering Matt – at 25 and 40 years
Soon after I was sworn in on Sunnyvale City Council in 2017, the nation was still in shock at outcome of the national presidential elections. On January 27, 2017, I received a poem in an email addressed to the Council members from a Sunnyvale resident,… Read More »Hometown Racists