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Musings on a California Morning
Winter skipped my corner of the world this year. While the rest of the country is shoveling out their Winter Wonderland I’m having coffee outside at dusk, as always, out on the deck with the cat. No...
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Sunny Saturday Musings
Sometimes I wonder of the insanity of the Modern Vampire Movement. I am out mid-morning, the sun is out, sandals on my feet. This is insane. But we have things to do, people to see in a world that...
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Gothic Skies
This is why I don’t live in an old damp castle. Palm trees covered with vines that will be blooming with flowers in a few months. Plus dark nights that are almost always clear to see the stars and...
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Standardized testing and the value of the GREAT TEACHER
How was school? I’m a mom so I have to ask. Clara started the infamous STAR Testing this week for the 8th grade. STAR Testing is the State of California’s Standardized Testing and Results which...
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Chalk It Up – A Rare Daytime Outing
On Saturday two of my brothers Val and Andrew, the Elders Tellias and Elora, my daughter Clara and I went downtown to the Chalk it Up event in Fremont part. Calk it Up is a great organization that...
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Zombies in the Morning – The Horrors of School Funding
This morning around 7:40 am I saw a line of what looked like Zombies staggering along the side of the road. They were coming from all directions to a main meeting point. Their heads down, their feet...
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The Circle – Musings on Life, Death and Art
It is funny how things circle around from one event to another and somehow everything in the universe seems to connect. Or at least enough things connect to make you think. Musings on Art, Ghosts and...
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When You Grow Old (a very short story)
A short story: When You Grow Old “Who will take care of you when you get old?” I asked my brother’s caretaker Josh. My brother Bob is 90 years old. A former screenwriter and movie producer, he lives in...
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California Afternoon, Vampire Guys (again), Parenting and Modern Life
Michinori waited for his teenage twins in the school parking lot. I waited with him. We also had loads of books to donate for the library book sale (our tax dollars not at work.) I welcomed the company...
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Waiting for the sun to set…
Today my mind is as blank as his… He is Oscar. He sleeps in the sink. He has a friend Gloria. Gloria hates him. She takes her walks without him. The cats watch the red shoulder hawk. While I pour a...
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An afternoon among angels – a visit to Mountain View Cemetery
This afternoon, after visiting Harlick Boots (for custom skate boots – a lovely and wonderful place if you need the best skate boots in the universe either roller or ice) my daughter and I decided not...
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Sunny Saturday Musings
Sometimes I wonder of the insanity of the Modern Vampire Movement. I am out mid-morning, the sun is out, sandals on my feet. This is insane. But we have things to do, people to see in a world that...
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Innocenzio D’Antonio
Innocenzio D’Antonio came to Sacramento in the 1850’s with a troupe of actors to make his fortune. He’d started as an opera singer in his native Italy and unfortunately did not make it into the famous...
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A Drive With Marilyn
I’m a little under the weather (even Vampires get under sometimes) so rather than trying to make up something fictional for today I’ll just tell you a story about my brother Val and me, then give you...
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City of the Angels Part 2: Beauty in the land of the dead
Last Thursday I visited the city of Colma, where almost everyone is dead. Seriously, over a million graves are there with less than 2,000 living in residence. There are no cemeteries in San Francisco –...
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Morning at the Vineyard (Fooled you once…)
Morning at the Vineyard (In honor of April 1st. This is a favorite of mine – near and dear to my cold un-beating Vampire heart.) Andrew didn’t remember much when the door opened with blinding light...
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Short Story Sunday: Morning at the Vineyard
Morning at the Vineyard A story from Juliette Kings Andrew didn’t remember much when the door opened with blinding light waking him from his sleep, much less the voice that said “You aren’t dead.” “Of...
View ArticleState of the Onion
More onions are grown in California than any other state. We also grow more garlic than any other state. Fortunately (trivia time) California Vampires have become immune to any irritation caused by...
View ArticleShort Story Sunday: Smoke
Smoke The sky is gray with smoke, the same color as the dove sitting on the back deck rail. I’m not just saying that to be literary. The sky IS the same color as the dove. It isn’t clouds. It’s smoke...
View ArticleMusings on Cats and Vampire Summers
I was out early this morning getting something out of my car. OK, I was looking for my purse. I thought I left it in my car last night. I didn’t. While I was outside I heard the sound of an angry cat....
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